Maidan organises fully-managed cricket and sightseeing tours of India for Australian club sides — built on relationships forged playing club cricket across India for over a decade. Matches, grounds, hotels and transfers, arranged by someone who has actually lived the logistics.
Every club has a story about the England trip, the cold beer after a rained-out day at some county ground. India is a different kind of tour entirely — crowds that turn up for a club fixture, grounds with real history, a country where cricket isn't a pastime, it's the pulse of the street. Your players will remember this one differently.
Clubs that keep touring the same three or four countries are leaving the best story on the table. India gives your side genuine opposition, a totally different style of cricket to test yourselves against, and sightseeing — forts, palaces, backwaters — that no one back home has done. It's the tour people bring their kids on stories from, decades later.
Committees don't hesitate on India because they don't want to go. They hesitate because visas, ground bookings and safe transfers feel like a full-time job on top of a full-time job. That's the whole reason Maidan exists — so your committee gets the experience, and someone who already knows the ground handles everything underneath it.
Maidan is run personally by its founder, who played club cricket across India for more than a decade — with ongoing memberships at clubs in several cities, not a one-off season. That's a different kind of network to a standard operator: club captains, ground staff and association contacts who pick up the phone because they already know the caller.
Alongside that on-field network sits a formal one — a decade based in India that included serving as Australian Trade Commissioner and establishing Austrade's consulate in Bengaluru. Between the two, Maidan can secure grounds, arrange genuine fixtures across multiple cities, and make sure the bus actually turns up.
For clubs who want a genuine cricket-and-sightseeing tour without the premium price tag. Comfortable 3-star hotels, private coach transfers, and fixtures against club and school sides.
For clubs wanting a landmark trip. Boutique and heritage hotels, marquee grounds, curated sightseeing, and a dedicated tour manager travelling with the group throughout.
Settle in, nets session at a local ground, welcome dinner overlooking Marine Drive.
Two fixtures against Mumbai club sides on the maidans that produced Tendulkar and Gavaskar, plus a tour of a historic cricket ground.
Transfer to Rajasthan. Evening free to explore the City Palace and Lake Pichola.
Match against a Rajasthan academy side; full-day heritage tour of forts and palaces.
Final fixture at a first-class venue, plus Amber Fort and the old city bazaars.
Farewell breakfast and transfer to the airport.
No two clubs are the same — squad size, dates, playing standard and budget all shape the itinerary. Fill in the full brief and we'll come back with a costed, tailored proposal within 3 business days.
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