by Australian Cricket Society | Jan 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Wandering X1 kicks off the New Year with a road trip for our annual stoush against a Des Lloyd Best Of Ballarat X1. The venue again this year is on the superb turf wicket at the Ballarat Grammar school. Still reliving our shock win in 2016, but never one to rest...
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...
