CTHPC-Charters Towers Goldfield Ashes-Australia Day Weekend

15/01/2026

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Find game times, map and field numbers, tributes, comments by Kerri Forno, and more for The Ashes in the latest special edition of the Charters Towers newspaper.

Thank you to Charters Towers Cricket Association committee members Kerri Forno Jeffery Bailey, and Chris Gough for collaborating with Sumpton’s Gold Rush Gazette to provide the community with a great Goldfield Ashes special edition newspaper.

Thank you also to everyone else who contributed.

12/01/2026

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Organisers of one of North Queensland’s most beloved sporting events will be keeping an eye on the weather in the lead up to day one of the event.

12/01/2026

2026

18/10/2023

29/01/2023

Holliman and Harte Street residents can begin the final countdown - flying fox removalists are on their way 🦇🦇 Read story here: http://bit.ly/3XBJYhf

13/01/2023

Let your team mates know Karizma is back at their old stomping ground for ASHES!!! Start the weekend off right at the Commercial Hotel Friday the 20th. Hope to see you there. 💜

07/11/2022

2023 dates and nomination form are up.
Noms due by 25.11.

The Charters Towers Goldfield Ashes is the largest amateur cricket carnival in the southern hemisphere.

22/01/2022

2022

The Goldfield Ashes got underway on Friday, with hundreds of cricketers converging on Charters Towers for a hit, giggle and beer 🏏😂
We’ve loaded up the best pics from day one for your pleasure. SEE OUR MEGA GALLERY>>> https://bit.ly/33G6Tl0

18/01/2022

Visit Charters Towers, North Queensland
HOWZZZAAATT!!!!...
In 1948 the concept of a cricket carnival in Charters Towers was established and on Australia Day weekend 1949, 8 teams arrived to play in the first Goldfield Ashes Cricket Carnival. Bringing people together from far & wide, ‘The Ashes’, as it is affectionately known, is the largest amateur cricket carnival in the Southern Hemisphere, with nearly 250 teams from A grade through to social grade playing cricket in our region.
I wonder when that last game was played in 1949, did the organisers & players think that the tradition would continue to become such an iconic event over 70 years later?
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22/12/2020

ASHES CANCELLED