by Australian Cricket Society | Oct 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Please note that our next Session is being conducted this coming Thursday (22nd October) at 5.30pm. Our Special Guests are Victorian Cricketers Sam Harper and Marcus Harris.Sam, a former Steve Mason Award Winner, is the Victorian wicketkeeper. He made his debut with...
by Australian Cricket Society | Oct 20, 2020 | News
The 2021 Pavilion is another literary masterpiece. All colour for the first time, it consists of 48 pages. It has once again been edited by ACS president , cricket writer and publisher Ken Piesse. First published in 1969, the current edition has a who’s who of...
by Australian Cricket Society | Oct 11, 2020 | News
by Pam Bishop Bob Hopkins is now in his 80s and proudly continues a long and successful period of playing cricket to this day (Covid-19 permitting). Both his father, ‘a wonderful sportsman’, and his ‘cricket mad uncle’, first attracted him to the game. Ken “Slasher”...
by Australian Cricket Society | Sep 29, 2020 | News
by Pam Bishop Our second ACS lunchtime Zoom session on Friday 25th September featured special guest, Craig Dodson. The humble, self-effacing, Craig now describes himself as a 41-year-old balding cricketer well past his prime; a former first grade player who was “a...
by Australian Cricket Society | Sep 28, 2020 | News
BY KEN PIESSE Have known ‘Deano’ (Dean Jones) since he was 17 and opening the bowling for our mid week team the Plastic XI. He was full frontal even then. In the nets one day at Mt Waverley at Dav Whatmore’s indoor cricketing school, I got a leg...