WILLIAMSTOWN Cricket Club can remain at its spiritual home, thanks to the $8.77 million redevelopment of its ground unveiled last week.
Sport and Recreation Minister Hugh Delahunty last Wednesday joined players from the Williamstown football and cricket clubs to officially open a new pavilion.
The pavilion features a covered grandstand, 260-seat function room, clubrooms with player recovery facilities, medical rooms, coaches’ boxes, timekeepers’ and community meeting rooms and a lecture theatre.
WCC president Graham Murdoch said his club would now be the envy of the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association. “We’re excited to be moving into the new multimillion-dollar facilities at the Morris Street ground at the start of the 2012-13 season,” he said. “These facilities, combined with our training nets, will make our club the envy of the VSDCA.
“The cricket club will be actively encouraging cricketers from all over the western suburbs to come and join our club and take advantage of the facilities and coaching on offer.
“We are one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia, having been established in 1852, and our future is now guaranteed at our spiritual home for many generations to come.”
Williamstown ward councillor Angela Altair said
the redevelopment would also benefit the Williamstown Football Club.
Hobsons Bay Council and the state government each contributed $3 million to the project. WFC put in $2.25 million, the AFL and AFL Victoria each contributed $250,000, and WCC pitched in $20,000.
