by Australian Cricket Society | Mar 18, 2022 | Journalism Scholarship, News
By Sam Coulson, The ACS’s 2022 Literary Scholar On the 5th of March 2022, I was awoken by rapid fire messages from my father and brother. Immediately I knew something was wrong, then after I opened my phone, I just did not believe it. Shane Warne passed away aged...
by Australian Cricket Society | Mar 15, 2022 | Journalism Scholarship, News
By Sam Coulson, the ACS’s latest Literary Scholar On 4 March, the Australian Cricket Society had a luncheon to celebrate Ken Piesse’s book Fifteen Minutes of Fame, Australia’s 70 One-Test Wonders. We had the pleasure of sharing the afternoon with many ACS guests as...
by Australian Cricket Society | Nov 29, 2021 | Journalism Scholarship, News
Part One Greg Chappell has had a long and storied career in cricket. He played 87 Tests for Australia and 74 one day internationals. However, his latest book ‘Not Out’ shares his experience from coaching South Australia and India.Chappell’s cricket career first kicked...
by Australian Cricket Society | Nov 18, 2021 | Journalism Scholarship, News
BY DONAL WILSON One of our playing elite, Phil O’Meara, hails from Trayning, a small town outside of Perth, and comes to ACS cricket via a distinguished club and state career which saw him play at Sheffield Shield level with Western Australia. At school, Phil played...
by Australian Cricket Society | Sep 5, 2021 | Journalism Scholarship, News
David McNamara, or ‘Big Mac’ as he likes to be known, has had an amazing cricketing journey to date, playing cricket all across the world. Tours to New Zealand, South Africa, Barbados and watching Ashes tours in England ‘Big Mac’ has experienced it all. Big...
by Australian Cricket Society | Sep 5, 2021 | Journalism Scholarship, News
From the peanut farm to Power House; that’s the motivating story of Jeff Scotland, one of the ACS’s champion south of the Yarra allrounders. The quaintly-named ‘peanut farm’ is the home base for St Kilda City, Jeff’s first junior club, which is adjacent to Luna Park,...
