Management Committee

Mark was elected President of the Australian Cricket Society at the AGM in September, 2022.  He has been involved in cricket as a player, administrator, and enthusiastic supporter for more than 50 years.

 His playing career included District cricket, before joining Elsternwick CC where he is a Life Member and has served terms as President, Treasurer and committeeman while playing more than 400 games.  As well as playing with Elsternwick, Mark enjoys matches and the Echuca state carnivals with the ACS Over 60s team.  Mark also held delegate and committee roles with the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association (Life Member) and Cricket Victoria.

 Before retirement, Mark practised as a lawyer and chartered accountant. 

He is an enthusiastic club golfer and he recently retired after six years as a Golf Victoria board member.  When not being belted around the ground or missing putts, Mark can be found reading (especially current affairs), fishing, gardening, or attending various forms of the arts.  He spends time on the Mornington Peninsula where he finds wines to add to the collection.

His wife fortunately shares his interest in cricket and has been a willing travelling companion to watch Tests in New Zealand, the West Indies and England.

Michael has been a member of the ACS since 2022, joined the committee in October 2023, and has been invited to replace the very well-respected and retiring secretary, Wayne Ross.

Michael’s beginnings in cricket began as an 8-year-old boy, playing in North Caulfield juniors and filling gaps in their senior teams during the 1960s. In the mid-1970s, Michael’s father, the late Reuben Pahoff organised the merger of North Caulfield with the old Glenhuntly Cricket Club. Reuben was its first president and boasted Robert Lamb as its captain-coach and three senior grade VJCA premierships. From this, Michael learned how to administer a cricket team.

Alongside playing and leading his own teams, Michael is a competent cricket administrator. When secretary of the Mackie Cricket Club in the early 2000s, he administered the growth of the club from 4 senior teams only to 15 teams of seniors and juniors. In the late 2000s, he moved onto the Richmond Cricket Club executive committee, following his son, Anton, a teenage recruit. Shortly after, he was appointed administration manager at Richmond and assisted in the club’s agreement and transition from Punt Road to Central Reserve in Glen Waverley.

“Punt Road was always a one oval ground, and our 3rds and 4ths were nomads. Central Reserve had two VCA sized grounds together, a perfect location for the cricket club to thrive for the next 150 years. The Monash Council built us new rooms, the RFC gave us an exit fee that set the cricket up to be financially independent. It was a win-win.”

It was in Michael’s final season as administration manager that the Tiges won their last senior premiership. After, he continued to serve on their committee, gaining grants, assisting with creating the Tiger Academy, affiliating with Monash women’s cricket, etc., until retiring through illness in 2017.

Upon recovery, he was recruited back onto the Mackie Cricket Club and assisted in rebuilding it into a 22-team club – senior men, junior boys, veterans, senior women, and junior girls – affiliated with 6 different associations.

Michael wishes to serve the ACS as well, if not better, than his previous clubs.

Brian has been a member of the ACS since February 2015 and joined the Committee as Treasurer in October 2016.

His modest cricket career ( His words! ) spanned 17 seasons across various grades with the Eltham Cricket Club (in the Diamond Valley), where he served on the committee as well as captaining in several seasons.  Best figures with the dinky medium pacers were 8/58, with a top score of 88 not out.

Brian has always loved “the greatest game in the world”.  He first attended Sheffield Shield matches in the early 1960’s and remembers fondly the great Victorian cricketers of that time.  Many enjoyable days have been spent at the MCG with family and friends since.  He never misses the Melbourne test matches.

Apart from the ACS involvement, Brian serves on the Board and Finance Committees of three not-for-profit entities, loves following the Sydney Swans, travelling with Doris and spending time with his three children and four grandsons.

• Invited to Join the ACS Committee by the late Richard Elvin’s
• Regularly arranged ACS overseas cricket tours to Fiji, New Zealand, and Canada, Sth Africa, India, Sri Lanka and interstate.
• Currently representing the ACS in the Wandering 11, plus the over 60’s team.
• Currently member of the VSDCA -Caulfield Cricket Club Committee.
• Awarded the Prestige’s HH Little –Best Clubman Award –Caulfield Cricket Club –Season 2015-16 and 2018-19
• Played Junior and Senior Cricket in the Geelong Region.
• Won many Bowling Awards and Best Clubman award with the Geelong Cricket Association Club –St Joseph’s CC
• Former Secretary and Life-Member Newtown & Chilwell Football Club –Geelong Football League
• Employed with NAN Electrical Cable Australia as International Marketing Manager, responsible for product sales to Asia and the Pacific.
• Executive Committee Member on the Australian Papua New Guinea Business Council.

Keiran has been an avid player and watcher of cricket since his early years.  Playing with two older brothers in a suburban backyard evolved into School and Club cricket, initially a leggie then an opener. 

He has a 7 for and one century in a long career that spanned juniors, seniors and Vets, mostly at 2nds and 3rds level in suburban cricket.  A highlight was top scoring in a Vet’s Premiership game.  In 2019 he had the pleasure of watching Steve Smith score twin centuries in his comeback game in the First Test in Birmingham – what a game!