The Honest Trundlers cricket team from Australia have a long, proud and story-filled history on their many (now numbering 17) tours through New Zealand, and always manage to fit in fixtures in Queenstown and Christchurch, amongst many others. Their connection to Christchurch, in particular, was cemented back in February 2011 after being caught in the huge quake that rocked Christchurch & Canterbury and changed local history forever. There were many stories to come from the two main shakes (Sept 2010, and Feb 2011), and most of them make for trying reading, with so much tragedy, trauma and loss.
One first-hand story, which is well worth 10 minutes of your reading time, tells the event from the Honest Trundlers cricket team’s perspective, written so eloquently by team member, Ian “Whispering Ted” Lowe in the 2011 aftermath, and linked here with permission:
“The day the earth shook”, by Ian Lowe
Manchester Street, Christchurch, 11 Feb 2011 quake, c/-Stuff NZ 22Feb 2021
