View image in fullscreen Above: Newstead and Hepburn meet in a Castlemaine & District Cricket Association match at the self-made ground at Cricket Willow. Cricket Willow was opened in 1999, in time for Ian’s 50th birthday, and has been filling up with miscellaneous – mostly cricketing – items ever since. “They host functions here and, with all the history, I really don’t know whether there’d be anything else like it.”Will Cricket Willow bat on? View image in fullscreen Ian Tinetti stands with a bat at Cricket Willow in Shepherds Flat. These days, the families are fracturing as young people move away, and the conversation turns to the fate of Cricket Willow.
