Zoom December 10 Ashley Gray

by | Dec 1, 2020 | News

JOIN OUR DECEMBER 10ZOOM SESSIONDear ACS member & friend By popular demand, after our successful series of  spring-time Zoom sessions, we welcome Ashley Gray, the Australian-based author of The Unforgiven,already short-listed as the William...

Pavillion 2021

by | Oct 20, 2020 | News

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 | Oct 11, 2020 | News

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 | Sep 29, 2020 | News

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 | Sep 28, 2020 | News

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...