Canterbury Cricket Week ceremonies. As of 2017, there have been 166 Canterbury Cricket Weeks held. The week continued through the Second World War with cricket being held on the ground each season. The politician and journalist Bill Deedes wrote in 2000: "while the Second World War was on, I consoled myself by thinking that Canterbury Cricket Week, founded in 1842 with its tents and famous lime tree, unchanging in a changing world, was the sort of thing I was in business to preserve." Traditionally Canterbury Cricket Week has included a Ladies day with prizes being awarded for the best hat on the day.
TCA Ground where it currently stands, (where the kiosk and DOSA Football Clubrooms currently stand) but was blown over by a gale in 1947, it was again blown down in 1995 and was rebuilt in late 1999. The ground was opened with much fanfare in 1882, with the TCA played a visiting Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) XI, and although the scorecard is lost, the TCA was soundly trounced. One of the early problems the ground faced was the drought which struck southern Tasmania towards the end of the 19th century. The pitch cut up and was virtually unplayable. On one occasion Edward