Super Rugby Champions the BNZ Crusaders went into bat for CFNZ at the 35th annual Charity Cricket match, raising a big sum of almost $30K to support New Zealanders with CF.

The Crusaders were up against the All Stars Invitational team, led by Andrew Mehrtens, which was able to break the Crusaders five-year winning streak for the annual 20/20 Charity Cricket match.

It was particularly successful this year - the sunshine helped attract more people on the day which also featured a Kids' Cricket Academy in the morning, and a marquee with stunning art on sale.

A lot of people put in a huge amount of effort to make this day a success and we would like to thank the BNZ Crusaders, the Invitational team, Dan Vann for his Cricket Academy, The Rock for all the publicity, schools that ran mufti days to support the event, Poster Boy Harry, Jen Duncan for organising and all the amazing volunteers who gave up their time to support CF.

MC Chris Bond gave a moving talk about his personal experience with CF. "I have a cousin who has CF and have experienced first hand how important CFNZ are and the amazing work they do," he said.