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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...

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 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...

THE PRIDE OF PRINCE ALFRED COLLEGE, GREG CHAPPELL is an undisputed legend of Australian Cricket, whose latest book ‘Not Out’ is proving to be a Christmas best seller.ACS members and friends can purchase a signed copy of Greg's book...

David epitomizes what it means to be a dedicated and devoted follower of the game of cricket. He was one of the Australian Cricket Society Foundation Members, being among the very first who attended its very first meeting in the bowels of the MCG on a wintery evening...

Alister Nicholson is one of the rising stars of sport broadcasting, knowledgable, laid-back and erudite. He has covered big sport around the world and in recent weeks has been one of the key commentators for the women’s popular Big Bash League. This is his first book....

ROLAND PERRY, Bodyline SeriesZoom presentation, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15Prominent Melbourne-based author Roland Perry is soon to publish his 37th book, Bradman vs Bodyline. It our privilege to have Roland as guest of honour in our upcoming Zoom Session on Friday, October 15...

We have been fortunate to have access to two Australian squad cricketers Sophie Molineux and Hannah Darlington next Thursday at 5 p.m. as the girls prepare for a set of internationals against India. The session is being run by  the Australian...

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 Mac's...

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,...

Dear ACS Playing Group As part of the celebrations for Don Bradman's birthday, we will be joined by ex-Test fast bowler the soldier-cricketer Tony Dell on Zoom tomorrow Friday, August 27 from 12 noon. Tony was to be in Melbourne alongside the Governor-General of...