Centrals Cricket Club is fast growing into one of Orange's largest and on Saturday president Matt Tedeschi is hoping to use that ballooning foundation to assist a worthy cause.
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The club will hold its 2019 Christmas Party at Jack Brabham Park on Saturday, which coincides with all four of the red and black senior outfits playing at the venue.
The afternoon will also double as a charity day, and Tedeschi says this year's event will help raise funds for a cause close to the club's heart, premiership-winning fast bowler and long-time club sponsor Dan Sandford lost his wife Steph to cancer in late October.
As a result, this year the club is raising money through the Cancer Council, with all funds generated from the day going to assist those battling, or impacted by, brain cancer.
Kicking off at 12pm on Saturday, Tedeschi says there will be activities for the kids, a barbecue and raffles throughout the afternoon and encouraged all Centrals old boys, and members of the cricket community in general, to come down and enjoy a massive day and support a worthy cause.
"Dan was the heart of soul of the club for a long time, if not for him we wouldn't be where we are today," Tedeschi said of Sandford, a long-time committee member for Centrals while he was a player as well.
"We just wanted to do something that might help, and really this is the least we can do.
"Hopefully it might help him, and all those affected by cancer."
Centrals plays CYMS in the top-flight, Bathurst-Orange Inter-District Cricket competition and in Orange District Cricket Association's Second Grade competition as well, fitting given Sandford represented both clubs.
Centrals' two Third Grade sides square-off in a red and black derby as well.
The club's charity fundraiser starts at 12pm on Saturday at Jack Brabham.
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