It was beautiful day for Dream Cricket at Bradman Oval.
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Held on the last Friday of October, Dream Cricket has celebrated it's 10th year running.
Primary school children with special needs from the Southern Highlands, Southern Tablelands, Wollondilly, and Illawarra came together to play modified cricket games.
This year 11 schools and more than 180 children with special needs and student volunteers from Moss Vale High School, Bowral High School, Oxley College and Chevaliar College participated in the biggest day that Dream Cricket has seen.
At the helm of Dream Cricket is Rick McCarthy who has seen Dream Cricket grow over the last 10 years and has taken it overseas to India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
"The activities have changed [over the last 10 years] but kids are kids and the excitement hasn't changed," he said.
"It's brilliant to see.
"The most important thing are the students and the opportunity to play a sport that they normally wouldn't be included in.
"The idea came from Roley Bigg went to America and saw a modified version for Baseball.
"He came back and told the rotary and the rotary approached me and I've been running it since."
Roley Bigg is one of the founders of Dream Cricket, after witnessing something similar in America and baseball. Ten years on and Roley can't believe the impact that it's hard not only here in the Highlands but on a national and global scale.
"It first started as way for students with disabilities to get involved in sport and integrate with the community," he said.
"I had no idea of the benefits it would have on everybody.
"We have volunteers from the high school and it's good to see everyone interact.
"The Rotarians have been a great pool of wisdom from experience and have helped immensely."
Secretary of the Dream Cricket Foundation and Moss Vale Rotarian, Jim McAlpine has also noticed that level of participation has increased over the 10 years.
"It's the biggest participation," he said.
"It began in 2010 and it's been going ever since.
"It's important to give students the opportunity to play when they normally miss out.
"It's also important to the parents to know that [their kids] are able to participate. It's a good memory to have.
"It's just wonderful."
Jim, who had his two grandsons with him on the day, said that they were waiting for the students to come.
"Lachie said to me this morning, 'when are the students with possibilities coming?' It was nice."
DreamCricket is a not for profit initiative initiated by the Movement Disorder Foundation in concert with the Rotary Clubs of the Southern Highlands and the Bradman Foundation 10 years ago.
It is supported by local charity Kollege OF Knowledge Kommittee for Kids (4K), and Cricket NSW, and engages over 10,000 children throughout Australia.