The Australian Cricket Society invite readers to their Annual Dinner featuring Greg Chappell as the guest speaker.
Almanac (ACS) Lunch: Review – Footy Fever lunch with Neil Balme
September 2, 2025 by 2 Comments
Keiran Croker reviews the recent Australian Cricket Society Lunch from last week that featured Neil Balme as the guest speaker.
Almanac Cricket: ACS Literary Scholar Report – West Indies v Australia 2025
August 27, 2025 by 1 Comment
Lorenzo Di-Mauro Hayes is the Australian Cricket Society’s literary scholar and is mentored by John Harms. Lorenzo presents his thoughts of Australia’s performance in the recent Test series against West Indies in light of their prospects in the upcoming Ashes series.
Almanac Cricket: Headingley 1975
August 13, 2025 by 2 Comments
Glen! takes us on a 50-year walk down memory lane, reflecting on the Headingley Test Match of 1975
Almanac Lunches: ACS invites you to lunch with Neil Balme
August 11, 2025 by 1 Comment
The Australian Cricket Society will feature footy legend Neil Balme as their guest speaker at their upcoming ‘Footy Finals Fever’ lunch on Thursday 28 August 2025.
Almanac Books: The Fifty Books of Bernard
July 25, 2025 by 12 Comments
Friends gathered with Bernard Whimpress to help him celebrate the fifty books he has published over many years, and to acknowledge his recently announced award of an Order Of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to literature as a sportswriter and author.
Almanac Cricket: Fast bowling: A love affair.
July 20, 2025 by 5 Comments
Scott Hunt, who was a practitioner of the art himself, explains his love of fast bowling, the appeal of its menace and the precision, particularly the ‘mad bastard fast bowlers’ who feature in the great game of cricket.
Almanac Cricket: Eighteen Summers at the Top – Teachers in SACA A Grade District Cricket
July 16, 2025 by 10 Comments
Graham Lewis has spent months compiling the history of a rather unusual and unlikely Australian cricket club. Student Teacher and Teachers College Cricket Club played top level District cricket in the SACA A Grade competition for two decades. This is Graham’s story of this remarkable club.
Almanac Life: The Whitburn Coincidence
July 10, 2025 by 4 Comments
Talk about coincidences – an old cricket photo, a funeral in Perth, the musical ‘Hamilton’, the Whitburn Cricket Club in the UK, and more are linked together as explained by John Gordon.
Almanac Cricket – World Test Championship: South Africa v Australia
July 7, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Australian Cricket Society Scholar Lorenzo Di-Mauro Hayes reports on the World Test Championship.
Almanac Cricket: ACS – Australian Deaf Cricket team
July 1, 2025 by 3 Comments
Australian Cricket Society Scholar Lorenzo Di-Mauro Hayes speaks to Callum Asbury and Jake Floyd about their career as deaf cricketers with the Australian Deaf Cricket team.
Amanac Travel: Citrus Bob’s Sporting Odyssey
June 30, 2025 by 1 Comment
Citrus Bob Utber is heading overseas in 2026 to witness a number of major sporting events in Europe and the UK – and he invites you to join him.
Almanac Cricket – Australia v South Africa: A trip back to the Home of Cricket
June 16, 2025 by 1 Comment
Peter Argent had a last-minute chance to attend the Test Championship, so he jumped on a plane and lobbed at the home of Cricket to witness a tight contest.
Almanac Sport: I wear my Wimbledon Sunglasses at Night
May 30, 2025 by 2 Comments
Sports lover Paul Harman reflects on past and current sporting highlights watched, usually at night, on TV.
Australian Cricket Society Book Launch – ‘Cricket’s Lost Prodigy’
May 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
The Australian Cricket Society invites you to their upcoming lunch on Friday 13 June featuring the book launch of ‘Cricket’s Lost Prodigy’ by Michael Lefebvre.
Almanac Cricket: Rulebook’s SACA Sheffield Shield Ramblings
May 14, 2025 by 11 Comments
Rulebook presents his thoughts on South Australia’s great Sheffield Shield victory, and the season as well.
Almanac Cricket: South Australia breaks the Sheffield Shield drought in a classic
May 7, 2025 by 6 Comments
Australian Cricket Society Scholar Lorenzo Di-Mauro Hayes reports on a classic Sheffield Shield Final.
Almanac Comment: MCC Library – a place of reflection, conversation, discovery and respect
The Melbourne Cricket Club Library is 177 years old. Citrus Bob Utber and others pay their respects to this institution of reflection, conversation, and discovery for members, scholars, researchers and the general public.