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Oliver Peake ACS Male Young Cricketer of the Year
By Liam McCullagh ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). A freakish batsman who can hit the ball to all parts of the ground, Oliver Peake is a super talented 18-year-old who can bat anywhere in the top 6 and comes from great cricketing...
Sara Kennedy ACS Young Female Cricketer of the Year
By Liam McCullagh ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). From playing in the Women’s Big Bash League at sixteen years-of-age to being the first girl picked in Ballarat Clarendon College’s First XI team, Australian Cricket Society’s young...
Pavilion 2025 out soon!
edited by Ken Piesse In the 2025 edition we pay tribute to the greatest women cricketers of the first 90 years in an extended feature which honours so many wonderful players from Peggy Antonio in the ‘30s, Betty Wilson in the ‘50s right through to the fierce fast...
Notice of 2024 AGM
The Annual General Meeting of the Society is to be held at the Caulfield RSL, 4 St. Georges Road, Elsternwick on Wednesday, 9th October, 2024 at 7.00pm. It is not expected to be a long meeting, but there will be an opportunity for questions and discussions. After...
Can Test Cricket and T20 Co-exist? T20 World Cup Review.
By Liam McCullagh ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). One month since the West Indies and United States hosted the ICC T20 World Cup, and cricket’s future is as murky as ever. One thing is clear though, T20 cricket is imperative to...
USA take-over
By Liam McCullagh, incoming ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). The year is 2048 and chants of ‘USA’ bellow around the MCG, but this time it isn’t for a lanky-yankee playing for Collingwood, it’s for the United States of America’s...
Footy Almanac Lunch 28 June
From the Footy Almanac, mentors of our Journalism Scholarship: The peripatetic Footy Almanac is heading to Geelong where we’ll catch up with sports journalist, author and promoter John Craven at a lunch hosted by Roger Lowrey. We’ll chat to John about his most recent...
The United Nations of Warrion
By Liam McCullagh, incoming ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). We may not have won a game but playing the 2018/19 season with the ‘United Nations of Warrion’ was the funniest season of cricket I have been part of. It also...
Aravinda De Silva
By Liam McCullagh, incoming ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). There aren’t too many names in Sri Lankan cricket more highly regarded than the mini-maestro Aravinda de Silva. Standing 5 foot 3, the flamboyant batting all-rounder is...
Chris Judd visits the ACS
by Sam Coulson, former ACS Journalism Scholar Members and guests of the Australian Cricket Society were pleased to welcome Chris Judd to their recent event held at William Angliss in the city. Judd reflected on his sporting journey which was not just limited to AFL,...
Echuca Glory for the ACS
Echuca Over 60s Cricket Carnival, 17-21 March, 2024. by Peter Glenton and Dave Long. ACS won the Division 1 Championship at the Veterans Cricket Victoria Echuca Carnival. This was our fourth VCV Echuca Carnival, and a great success for ACS. This is a wonderful...
Bush Cricket at its Finest – Liam’s Match Review
West Warrion vs Deans Marsh Division Two Match Review By Liam McCullagh, incoming ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac's John Harms). If you’ve ever wondered whether playing darts until 4:00am helps your cricket performance the next day, let me tell...