Pink Stumps Cricket

GARY MUNDAY

The success of Pink Stumps Day at St Peters saw the Cricket program raise over $12,000 for the McGrath Foundation - one of the highest amounts ever to be raised by an Australian school.

In February 2021, St Peters new Cricket Coordinator, Mr Gary Munday, with the full support of Sports House and the College, arranged for St Peters to host a Pink Stumps Day versus St Laurence's College on Mayer and Stoltz Ovals. All other St Peters Cricket teams were also involved, with the boys and parents all wearing pink at their games. All games played with pink stumps, hats, bandanas and wrist bands—it was a very special day.

St Peters was the first school in Queensland to have all their Cricket teams, from Years 5 to 12, involved to bring awareness of breast cancer and in doing so raising an incredible $12,500.

Mr Munday, who has been heavily involved with the McGrath Foundation for over 11 years, described it as a day we all came together, and a day the school can be extremely proud of. Head of College, Mr Tim Kotzur and Deputy Head of College, Mrs Lisa Delaney, were present to help commemorate the first St Peters Pink Stumps Day proudly wearing their personally signed Glenn McGrath Cricket hats. The support from the parents was outstanding. It was a day to be remembered for so many reasons.

Pink Stumps Day has just completed its thirteenth year as the McGrath Foundation’s largest grassroot fundraising campaign. After the success of the first Pink Test, Glenn McGrath and the team wanted to take the magic of the Pink Test to communities across the country – where cricket clubs, schools, businesses and families could all wear pink at their cricket games and raise funds to support families experiencing breast cancer.

This saw the inception of Pink Stumps Day only one year after, which now sees hundreds of registrations every Cricket season and forms a national movement of cricketing communities pinking up to help fund McGrath Breast Care Nurses.