Past Event

A Merry Mongolian Christmas

17th Dec 2010 - 13th Dec 2013

Presenter: Mongolian Amatuer Cricket Association
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Event Duration: 180 minutes

A former Mongolian Judo champion is raising funds to take a love of cricket back to his homeland. When Battulga Gombo arrived in Melbourne he had never picked up a cricket bat and the former Mongolian Olympic Judo team representative was more at home with sports like wrestling and archery.

Four years later, the naturally athletic Gombo is a cricket fanatic who bowls at a nippy pace and bats with a natural aggression and confidence. He’s also possibly the only Mongolian on the planet with a Cricket Australia Community (Level 1) Coaching accreditation.

Before he picked up a bat Gombo picked up a book – Bradman’s iconic How to Play Cricket – which inspired him to find out more about a game based on a bafflingly strange set of laws and terminology. A later meeting with fellow cricket tragic, Doug Scott, at Monash University (where Gombo’s partner was completing a doctorate in education) eventually led to the formation the Mongolia Amateur Cricket Association into which Scott and Gombo have recruited a floating collection of Mongolian expats and locals.

Since then Gombo has taken his new found sporting passion back to Mongolia with the mission of introducing and inspiring a love of cricket in school-aged children in Mongolia, particularly in underprivileged parts of the capital, Ulaanbaatar, and in regional areas.

To help him stage further clinics and spread the cricket word in Mongolia, Gombo and his fellow Mongolia Amateur Cricket Association members are putting on a show to raise more funds.

So join us for some singing and dancing - Mongolian style!

All proceeds will go to Cricket for Kids in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Doors open @ 6.00PM with performances from 6.30PM