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POPULAR HUA HIN CRICKET SIXES TOURNAMENT TO BE HELD IN JUNE

The Hua Hin Cricket Sixes will take place at the Dusit Thani Hua Hin from June 28 to July 3. The popular amatuer cricket event returns after a hiatus due the pandemic.

“There will be 14 teams taking part this year, including players from India, Australia, UK and Thailand”, organiser Richard Vine told Hua Hin Today.

“It is 6-a-side cricket, with each team bowling five overs”.

“Games normally take around 40 minutes, so it is a much shorter game, but it is a great spectacle”, Richard added.

Despite cricket not being particularly popular in Thailand, the Hua Hin Cricket Sixes is now in its 25th year, with the tournament bringing almost 200 people, including players, families and friends, to Hua Hin.

Over the years a number of former professional players have taken part in the tournament, including former England international, Allan Lamb.

The Hua Hin Sixes includes three different competitions: the Cup,

Vets (over 50s) and Masters (over 35s), while professional umpires are drafted in to ensure that the rules are followed and the games are played in the correct spirit.

Also taking part in the tournament will be the local team the Hua Hin Hoppalongs.

The team, which was founded by local author Colin Devonshire, is now on the lookout for a couple of players to play in this year’s Hua Hin Cricket Sixes.

Richard says to join Hua Hin Hoppalongs, players need to be aged over 50 and able to bowl straight, no matter how slow, with the ability to drink “prodigious quantities of beer and vodka” a distinct advantage.

The match fee for players is 7,000 baht, which also includes a cocktail party and two dinners at the Dusit Thani.

As well as for players, the Hua Hin Cricket Sixes is a great social occasion for spectators and is well worth attending for cricket lovers in Hua Hin.

More information can be found at https://www.huahincricketsixes.com/

look forward to stress-free golf holidays and our team is ready to welcome everyone”, Mark added.

CENTARA WORLD MASTERS: HUA HIN HOSTS ASIA’S BIGGEST TOURNAMENT FOR CLUB GOLFERS

After a two year hiatus, the Centara World Masters Golf Championship made a welcome return to Hua Hin in May. Over two hundred people took part in the event in what is Asia’s biggest and richest tournament for club golfers.

Golfers from more than 20 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, India, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom flew in to take part in the tournament.

The annual event, now in its seventh year, is a collaboration between Australian-base Go Golfing, which has been hosting World Masters Golf events around the world for 27 years, and Thailand-based Golfasian, which looks after more golfers traveling to Asia than any other golf tour operator.

Attendees to the event stayed at host hotel the Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin, while the golfing action was played out on the greens and fairways of Black Mountain, Banyan and Springfield courses.

“We are thrilled to have had such a successful turnout for our first post-covid Centara World Masters golf tournment and we are looking forward to many events in the future”, Mark Siegel, Golfasian’s Managing Director told Hua Hin Today.

“The event was so successful that a large number have already registered for next year which will be held from 11-17 June 2023.

“Now that all travel restrictions into Thailand have been lifted, golfers can

SCHOOL FOR PUPILS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TO BE IN HUA HIN

Work has begun to create a brand new school for children with special education needs or disabilities in Hua Hin.

The Special Children’s School is being built in order to provide new educational facilities to 48 children who attend the Special Education Centre at Anubaan Hua Hin Nongkhon school.

The school provides educational and learning support to children who are deaf, blind or who have difficulty with speech and language learning, are on the autism spectrum or who have emotional and behavioural issues.

The students currently study in a classroom which measures just 49 square meters, leaving conditions cramped, which makes learning difficult and has a negative impact in terms of the development of the children both physically and mentally, as well as emotionally.

Initially teachers at the school approached Bangkok based media platform Ejan, which is well known for its support of worthy causes, to help publicise the need for new school facilities.

Ejan then generously agreed to raise the 20 million needed for the first phase of the project.

Set to open in June 2023, the new school is located in the Black Mountain area and will be built on 3 rai of land.

Phase 1 of the project should take approximately 7 months to complete, while phase two will be to provide specialist classrooms and phase three will provide housing for the teachers.

The plans for the school include the construction of seven classrooms equipped to provide special learning support for the students.

Two of the classrooms will be specificallydesigned to assist children with autism, while there will also be a light and audio sensory room, an intelligence room and a room designed to aid speech training.

Other classrooms being constructed at the new school will help with physical therapy and there will also be a water therapy room and nature garden learning zone, while the new bathroom will be specifically designed to assist disabled children.

On Wednesday (May 25) a ceremony was held to mark the formal breaking of ground on the build, which has been made possible by donations a number of different organizations including Ichitan Group Public Company Limited, Sansiri Public Company Limited, Nong Nooch Tropical Garden, TKS Chemical Co., Ltd, SCG Co., Ltd, RSK ReuQ Equipment Co., Ltd, the Rotary Club of Royal Hua Hin and Ejan.

The Rotary Club of Royal Hua Hin will sponsor 500,000 baht for the building of the audio sensory room.

Once completed, the school will be governed by the Ministry of Education, which has purchased the land the school will be built on and will assign specialist teachers to help with the development of the children attending, as well as providing support for their families and the local community.

While donations have been received to cover some of the costs of the school, more donations are still required.

Donations can be made to Kasikorn Bank Acc No: 101-8-42394-0 Name: Project to build a school for children with disabilities in Hua Hin or

Krung Thai Bank Prachuap Khiri Khan Branch No. 715-0-527996-5 Name: Income of special educational institutes in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province.