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by Literary Scholar Sam Coulson It was a day to celebrate the often-unsung heroes of a cricket team – the wicketkeepers. On Friday, July 15th , members and guests of the Australian Cricket Society [ACS] gathered at the Kelvin Club to listen to past wicket keepers tell...

ASHES TEST  dates for 2023 will be known this month. And for those itching to travel overseas again, it's time to commit for our Official 2023 ACS /Events Travel Ashes Tour, the sixth (and 10th overall) to be hosted by ACS president Ken Piesse and his wife Susan.  Our...

Having an involvement in the 2018 Indigenous tour of the UK reawakened Scott Boland’s dream of playing Test cricket for Australia. Twelve players including Scott and his younger brother Nick, played a series of matches in England as part of the 150th birthday...

By Sam Coulson, our ACS Literary Scholar Our own Ken Piesse describes David Long as “a powerhouse in two camps” – at  Elsternwick, where he is vice-president and at the Australian Cricket Society where he is Head of Cricket. “Longy” grew up in Ashwood and loves...

by ACS President Ken Piesse Our annual AFL footy launch, featuring DERMOTT BRERETON, Kelvin Club, April 1, 2022 When North Melbourne follower Darren Harris collided with Dermott Brereton in the 1991 Foster’s Cup night Grand Final, it was the beginning of the end for...

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...

ACS Cricket AcademyGame 1 ACS Cricket Academy v Jansz Cricket AcademyAH Butler Oval, Frankston – 13th March 2022 Report by Wayne Ross Magnificent weather and a magnificent ground – one of Premier Cricket’s finest!  The ACS Academy team, led by George Pourpouras,...

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...

December 1990: Rising leg spinner Shane Warne was making his debut with the Victorian second XI against Western Australia in a mid-week trial at the Albert Ground. Among the opposition from the Golden West were multi-gifted trio Justin Langer, Damien Martyn and Stuart...

On January 30th 2022, the Sri Lankan All-Stars played the Australian Cricket Society's Wandering XI at the magnificent John Coburn Oval in sunny Frankston. The All-Stars batted first and put together a well-compiled 180 off their 40 overs with Ravi Kannangara and...

WAYNE ROSS profiles another Frankston legend, SCOTT BOLAND, the new hero of the MCG  Scott Boland was added to the Australian Ashes Squad a week before the third Ashes Test between Australia and England as insurance for Josh Hazelwood who was endeavoring to...

KEN PIESSE’S INTRODUCTION: Time to introduce our specialist guest everyone. Let’s go back 40 years to the winter of 1981. It was an ever-so-cold mid-July Saturday night in Melbourne and all-Australia, in living rooms around the country, was rejoicing. England was on...