Pavillion 2021

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...

Our over-70s Superman

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”...

A view of Australia from fine leg

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...

There was only one Deano

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...

Upcoming Zooms – Test legend, Authors and more

Please put these in your diary 1230 Friday Lunchtimes all; see Events for more: September 25, Craig Dodson, a balding 42-year-old club offie and his experiences of playing for 11 clubs in one season – all for charity. October 2, Martin Rogers, author...

Meet two foremost Oz Cricketers on Zoom

On the eve of the whiteball series with New Zealand in Brisbane, two of Australia’a foremost female cricketers Rachael Haynes and Annabel Sutherland are available to chat to us exclusively  on Friday 18/9/20 from 5 p.m. It is a ‘Zoom’ session and you...