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“By bringing together the passion of cricket enthusiasts and the skills of talented painters and poets around the world, we look forward to seeing some impressive works of art and poetry that will celebrate and pay tribute to a global sport and national pastime.”

The organisers invite writers, authors and poets from test playing nations to submit a poem celebrating aspects of life in and around the game and sport of cricket…

The organisers invite artists from test playing nations to submit a painting or composition that depicts life in and around the game and sport of cricket…

After a 4 month inter-state, national tour exhibiting in 3 venues, the Cricket Art Prize exhibition received 3220 nominations via its website.

The Cricket Art Prize 2010 Calendar is beautifully produced and each painting celebrates and pays tribute to the game. The months may come and go but you can never tire of revisiting the pages of these perceptive and suggestive paintings. Beautifully printed in full colour, A4/landscape/wirecomb-bound with each painting displayed atop each month-page in the calendar

Due to an accumulation of restrictions and circumstances beyond our control, the Cricket Art Prize will not be exhibiting at the MCG in 2009.  We apologise for the short notice and the inconvenience.  The organisers will do all they can to try to bring this national exhibition to Melbourne in the coming years.

Entries will now be accepted from citizens who reside in full member ICC test playing nations

“Photography and cricket-art seem like an intuitive symbiosis…”

232 artist entries

The judges mentioned that the selected poems “…spoke about how cricket was interwoven with life in an unforced and natural manner…”