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,...
by Australian Cricket Society | Jul 14, 2021 | Journalism Scholarship, News
BY DONAL WILSON Victoria has a young cricketer in its squad capable of playing 100 Tests, according to head coach Chris Rogers. Speaking at the 53rd Australian Cricket Society annual dinner, Rogers spoke glowingly of Will Pucovski and others on Victoria’s...
by Australian Cricket Society | Jun 1, 2021 | Journalism Scholarship, News
By DONAL WILSON At just 17, Ella Hayward is impressing everywhere she plays, at the Melbourne Renegades and for Victoria in the Women’s National Cricket League. Winner of the Australian Cricket Society Steve Mason Young Female Cricketer of the Year award for 2021,...
by Australian Cricket Society | Jun 1, 2021 | Journalism Scholarship, News
How many games of cricket have you played? Two hundred? Five hundred? Lost count? Eane Whitton’s present record stands at 1100-plus over six decades – and with more to come, he tells DONAL WILSON. A 19-time premiership player, his experience stretches Australia-wide,...
