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Christmas with Harsha
Harsha Bhogle delighted at our 2018 Christmas dinner at Kooyong. He spoke passionately and most eloquently of the rise and rise of Indian cricket. Geoff Lemon proved the toast to cricket.
Poor Scheduling Pivotal
KEN PIESSE SAYS: Those in control of Australian cricket can blame only themselves for the loss of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, even before Friday’s Sydney Test. They were stood over and bullied by their Indian counterparts. Downgrading Brisbane to also-ran status — and...
Christmas with Harsha
A busy week coming up for us all with the great man coming down the Chimney in seven days time. After another big lunch, and either asleep on the couch or a game of backyard cricket we'll be on to the greatest day on the calendar other than the 25th and that's...
Paine the real deal
KEN PIESSE says Australia’s win in Perth is no one-off. Tim Paine’s team can go all the way and win the series from here. Australia’s cricket coach Justin Langer says Paine does not have a peer in the world when it comes to keeping wickets — and as a leader, his...
Hail a one-Test wonder
There have been more than 50 ‘one-Test wonders’ in the history of Australian cricket. KEN PIESSE pays tribute to one, Colin Guest, who died in mid December 2018 One ball, an outswinger to the run colossus Bobby Simpson changed the career path of broad-shouldered...
Harsha Bhogle : Christmas Test Dinner
Harsha Bhogle has been covering Indian cricket since his teen years working for All India Radio. Most Australians first heard his dulcet tones and impeccably spoken Indian English when the ABC engaged him to describe India’s matches during their 1991-92 tour here, and...
Three ACS lads honoured with Australian selection
This story by Ian B Gibson, one of our three national representatives. The recent tour to the UK was greatly enjoyed by the group of 18 Over 70 cricketers selected to represent Australia. What an honour, what a privilege, what an opportunity to play at “the home” of...
Annual General Meeting 24th September
Dear members and friends of the society please find Annual Meeting 24.09.2018 Invitation & Agenda:NOM details of the annual meeting coming up. Attached is the Agenda, Committee nominations and further details. If you are attending please note you will need to...
40 YEAR RE-UNION OF THE MIGHTY VICS
Looking forward to this great 40th year reunion afternoon of the Mighty Big V Cricketers from the 1978-79 and 1979-80 seasons. Our Australian Cricket Society is proud to be hosting the event at our Melbourne inner-city base the Kelvin Club. Fourteen of the lads also...
Proud to be assisting Vanuatu Cricket
The Australian Cricket Society and Kalgin transport have sent a large container of cricket equipment and brand new shoes to Vanuatu to assist Cricket Vanuatu in its endeavours to foster the game amongst thousands of super-enthusiastic boys and girls. That's the...
The Kelvin Club Lunch with Cameron White
In 18 stellar years in big cricket, Cameron White’s formidable CV includes Australian selection across all three formats, his first Victorian games at 17, the Bushranger’s captaincy at 20, the Australian Twenty20 captaincy and five Sheffield Shields. Captain for 10...
Vale Neville J Turner
Neville Turner was an extraordinary person who had an extraordinary impact on the Australian Cricket Society during his term as President (1998~99 until 2000~01. Neville was a regular in the outer at first-class games at the MCG (and most other grounds in Australia...