Fourteen teams are involved in the four-day carnival that will be played on all seven of Dubbo’s turf wickets at Victoria Park and Lady Cutler cricket centres.

Luke, a Year 6 student at St Pius in West Dubbo and the son of Brett and Paula Anderson, is the only Dubbo boy involved in the championships but others will be involved in Western and Mackillop teams.

The Polding and Mackillop sides are drawn from Catholic primary schools and Western from the public system.

Luke, a tall fast bowler who has the ability to provide some quick runs down the order, will be hoping to get regular wickets starting with the first-round game today against Barrier at No.3 Oval.

Luke’s father Brett said the youngster enjoyed cricket and owed his Polding selection to his local club coach Michael Kempston - the South Dubbo Whitney Cup all-rounder.

“Michael has had Luke since he started playing cricket with St John’s Hornets and everything he’s picked up has come from Michael,” Brett said.

“He’s also looking forward to one day playing in the same side as his uncle Rodney Morrison (the long-serving South Dubbo Hornets first grade opening bat).”

Luke’s Polding coach this week, Daniel Mitchell from St Nicholas’ Tamworth, met with his squad in Dubbo yesterday for some practice and to give the players time to get to know each other better.

“When you consider that our kids are from schools north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Queensland border, it’s a big area - the biggest in the State,” Mitchell said.

“However, we did get a good loock at the boys in the selection trials at Lismore and we’re hoping that the team will do well during the week.

“Bearing in mind the big workload ahead for these primary school kids, we’ve gone for mainly all-rounders and they will cover all situations with bat and ball.”

Interestingly through, Daniel Anderson from Our Lady of the Rotary school at Waitara in Sydney’s north is the sole city boy in the Polding side.

Oliver Hoare from St Joseph’s at Nyngan is in the Mackillop side that has kids from a far-ranging area taking in Kingsgrove in Sydney’s south west, down to Temora and Hay, and Nyngan.

Oliver’s coach is Michael Davidson from Our Lady of the Sacred Heart at Randwick.

Hosts Western will be guided by long-serving boys cricket coach Greg Morrissey from Parkes East Public.

Bradley Hart from Peak Hill Central is in the squad of 12 players.

Each of the 14 teams will play four games of 50 overs maximum batting for each side and bowlers are restricted to eight overs.

A NSW PSSA State side of 12 players will be announced after the final round on Thursday.

This week Sydney East is the highest seeded team having won the championship last year from Sydney North and Combined Independent Schools (CIS). Mackillop is ranked five, Polding 7 and Western 13.