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Belt Up Country Cup Records
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Season Winners Runners Up
1980/81 Wickepin Beverley-Brookton-York
1981/82 Wickepin Mt Barker
1982/83 Wickepin Mt Barker
1983/84 Bunbury Ongerup
1984/85 Bunbury East Avon
1985/86 Bunbury Katanning
1986/87 Wickepin Merredin
1987/88 Albany Wickepin
1988/89 Bunbury Central Great Southern
1989/90 C.Great Southern Merredin
1990/91 Narrogin North Midlands
1991/92 Bunbury Esperance
1992/93 Eastern Goldfields Bunbury
1993/94 Bunbury Merredin
1994/95 Central Districts Mid-West
1995/96 Eastern Goldfields Albany
1996/97 Peel Albany
1997/98 Peel Eastern Goldfields
1998/99 Geraldton Peel
1999/00 Peel Eastern Goldfields
2000/01 Bunbury Albany
2001/02 Peel Bunbury
2002/03 Peel Eastern Goldfields
2003/04 Geraldton Upper Great Southern
2004/05 Bunbury Geraldton
2005/06 Busselton MR Geraldton
2006/07 Bunbury Albany
2007/08 Upper G Southern Albany
2008/09 Esperance Upper Great Southern
2009/10 Eastern Goldfields Geraldton
2010/11 Upper G Southern Eastern Goldfields
2011/12 Eastern Goldfields Bunbury
2012/13 Eastern Goldfields Peel
2013/14 West Pilbara Eastern Goldfields
2014/15 Bunbury Albany
2015/16 Peel Upper Great Southern
2016/17 Albany Bunbury
2017/18 Not Played
2018/19 Not Played
2019/20 WA Invitational XI Bunbury
2020/21 Not Played - Covid 19
2021/22 Albany WA Invitational XI
2022/23 Bunbury Peel
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Belt Up Country Cup
The "Belt Up" Country Cup is a premier cricket competition played between WA Cricket's affiliated Country Cricket Associations, providing players with an opportunity to play in an elite competition.
The competition was introduced in the 1980-81 season as a Senior Inter-Association competition played under a 50 over/one-day format.
Over the years the "Belt Up" Country Cup has been mainly played as a "knock out" competition, with the Grand Finalists competing at the WACA Ground towards the end of the season.
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The "Belt Up" Country Cup has been played under the T20 format since the 2009-10 season.
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If you haven’t heard of them, the Insurance Commission is the state’s insurer providing motor injury insurance to 1.9 million motorists and self-insurance to 111 Government agencies in WA. Last year, it paid out around $450 million to injured people in crashes and it has supported and funded the Belt up campaign for over 20 years.
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Belt up is simply that – to promote wearing seat belts on WA roads to reduce the severity of injury in a crash. Belt up partners with community sport to target at-risk demographics and WA Cricket is the fifth sport joining the Belt up family – the other associations are West Australian Country Football League (Australian football), Netball WA, Rugby WA and Football West (soccer).
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Cricket was chosen due to its high participation rates and regional presence. Targeting regional WA is important to the Insurance Commission due to the high rates of crashes in country areas. Being a summer sport, cricket helps give the Belt Up campaign prominence throughout the year. The agreement with the Insurance Commission covers:
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Naming rights to the Belt Up Country Cup, Belt Up Cricket West Cup and the Belt Up Integrated Cricket League for cricketers with disability. The latter fits with the Insurance Commission’s objective to rehabilitate and improve the independence of those injured in crashes and workplace accidents, helping promote access to community sport for people with disability.
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Belt Up-branded cricket helmets distributed annually to community cricket clubs via the Belt Up Helmets Program. Reducing head trauma on the cricket field links to Belt Up’s aim of reducing head trauma and other injuries on the road; and
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Creation of a two-day match weekend Belt Up Round for Premier Cricket.
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