by Australian Cricket Society | Jan 8, 2017 | News, Uncategorized
The Australian Cricket Society ran a not so close second in the first new Year ‘test’ of the summer, the Pakistani Asylum Seekers, showing class and calibre in a comfortable five wicket victory with 14 overs today at plush Waverley Park, a stronghold for...
by Australian Cricket Society | Dec 29, 2016 | News
Our 50th Annual Dinner at Kooyong on Friday night, 10 March promises to be a stellar event with MIKE HUSSEY and DAVID HOBSON as our joint guests of honour. MIKE HUSSEY was a late blooming champion who averaged 50 in Test cricket despite not playing the first of his 73...
by Australian Cricket Society | Dec 29, 2016 | News
It was one of life’s great privileges to have watched Wasim Akram in full-throttle, advancing from 17 paces, over or around the wicket and making even the oldest ball talk. To hear him speak at our Christmas with Wasim function was a joy and one of our most...
by Australian Cricket Society | Dec 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Wasim Akram was just 18 and an absolute unknown when he first harpooned Australia with a whippy ferocity which stunned the early arrivals at the MCG this pleasant February morning. Playing only his fourth ODI and first against Australia, Wasim took the first five...
by Australian Cricket Society | Nov 21, 2016 | Wandering XI
Reinforced by the Ivanhoe cavalry the ACS Wandering XI completed their second win of the season by a comfortable margin over the VCA Umpires at Walter Galt Oval , home of the Kingston Hawthorn Hawks Batting first on a fine Premier standard wicket, the ACS made a...