Welcome to the
Australian Cricket Society
Next Event: Details soon!
ACS News
Bronte Leishman and Tom Paddington: ACS Young Cricketers of the Year
By Liam Grima, ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms).Glenn Maxwell, Mel Jones, Brad Hodge and Annabel Sutherland are just some of the names that have been recognized as the Australian Cricket Society’s Young Cricketers...
Jack Conroy: “Giving it a red-hot crack”
By Liam Grima, ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). For Jack Conroy, cricket has always been more than just a game. Growing up watching his Dad play veterans cricket for Mazenod and spending Christmas day with bat and ball in the...
Mulgrave: From Backyard Dreams to Premiership Glory
By Liam Grima, ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). Whenever I put on the baggy blue, or applied the finishing touches of sunscreen to my incredibly pale skin, I always thought that finals were just another game. I could never have been...
“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”.