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It’s been a crazy Ashes series.
By Lorenzo Di-Mauro Hayes, ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). It’s been a crazy Ashes series. Australia has not fielded their best XI in this Ashes campaign. Josh Hazelwood will not play.. Steve Smith captained the side through the...
Dinner with Dizzy – Saturday 27th December @ Kooyong
The annual ACS Boxing Day dinner for 2025 was held at Kooyong on Saturday 27th December, the second and unexpectedly last day of the Ashes Test match. Our special guest was Australian fast bowling great Jason “Dizzy” Gillespie. Members and their guests, 78 in...
Celebration of Cricket Carnival – Barossa
The Australian Cricket Society is again fielding a team in the Celebration of Cricket Carnival in the Barossa Valley next year the same week as the Echuca Carnival. Barossa: 26 caters for Over 60 and O70s players who were missed selection in club teams for Echuca. The...
“Gatting has absolutely no idea what has happened to it … he still doesn’t know!” – on Shane Warne’s Ball of the Century in 1993.
Richie Benaud
About the Australian Cricket Society
The Australian Cricket Society was founded in 1967 by a group of cricket aficianados led by Melbourne lawyer Andrew Joseph. Along with founding President Radcliffe Grace, their vision was the creation of a fraternity of cricket lovers to celebrate and “repay the tremendous pleasure we receive from the game”.