Dan Hoban reviews last week’s three Sheffield Shield matches and tips the Vics will win the Shield this season.
Almanac (Club) Cricket – Round 3: West Warrion v Colac
November 10, 2025 by 3 Comments
The Panthers are in the pink again as Liam McCullagh outlines their win over Colac to continue their perfect start to the season.
Almanac Cricket: An appreciation of Ian Chappell (Part 1)
November 10, 2025 by 7 Comments
Chappelli has had an extraordinary impact on Australian cricket and here Reject Phil recounts some of his own experiences with one of the best skippers Test cricket has ever seen.
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: Favelland
February 24, 2025 by 10 Comments
Michael Sexton on Les Favell’s entry into the SA Sport Hall of Fame
Almanac Cricket: BBL13 ready to roll from tomorrow night
December 6, 2023 by 2 Comments
BBL13 blasts off tomorrow night to begin a 7-week frenzy of T20 cricket culminating in the Final on January 24.
Almanac Cricket – WBBL: Adelaide Strike(r)s again!
December 3, 2023 by 1 Comment
The Adelaide Strikers have clinched back-to-back WBBL titles after a pulsating win over Brisbane Heat in front of a big Adelaide crowd.
O Me Miserum: the genesis and revelations of an offie
February 7, 2023 by 29 Comments
With the chat about Tim May on our site, it’s timely to get into the mind of an offie…
Chris Harms, whose bowling action was highlighted in a recent piece by John Harms, replies to his cousin.
[first published 2014]
Almanac Cricket: Muschy – the left-handed adjudicator
January 30, 2023 by 4 Comments
In his enlightening article about the life and times of a cricket umpire, Matt Watson pays tribute to Queenslander Lawrie Musch, a dedicated and popular former member of the umpiring fraternity.
Almanac Cricket: Cricketus Interruptus
October 25, 2022 by 4 Comments
Peter Crossing examines those interruptions in play at the cricket that are not necessarily cricket related.
Almanac Sport: Not too much but enuff
April 8, 2022 by Leave a Comment
It was a busy weekend for WA correspondent Les Everett watching football and cricket as his report suggests.
KG Cunningham: South Australian Sporting Legend
February 18, 2022 by 48 Comments
Rulebook returns with a profile of South Australian legend KG Cunningham, cricketer, footy umpire and broadcaster extraordinaire.
Almanac Cricket: Fifty-five days to be King – the BBL 11 Grand Final in technicolor (by John Gordon)
February 4, 2022 by 1 Comment
It takes a lot of skill for a writer to make T20 BBL cricket interesting and entertaining, and meaningful. But John Gordon has done it. Read his overview of BBL11 and the Scorchers win in the Grand Final. [Wasn’t expecting references to the Boxer Rebellion and David Niven in the opening paragraph – JTH]
Almanac Cricket: No stopping the Grand Old Duke of York
January 28, 2022 by 1 Comment
For Peter Siddle, on every level, it’s been one of the great cricket careers and it’s still going strong, writes RON REED.
Almanac Cricket: Reaching for the Stars – again
December 17, 2021 by 3 Comments
Some teams just seem destined never to deliver on the big stage and Ron Reed follows two of them.
Almanac Cricket (and life): Jack Lihou
January 21, 2021 by 1 Comment
A notice in the newspaper this morning set Almanac editor Ian Hauser thinking back over the years. It might even be enough to get him started on a long-delayed project.
Almanac Cricket: Joy in the Juniors
January 11, 2021 by 2 Comments
With observations finely honed and borne of years of umpiring experience, John Gascoigne knows a bit about cricket. This week he’s learned just a bit more thanks to the bat and ball exploits of twin sisters in the Victorian Metropolitan Cricket Union’s annual carnival.
Almanac Cricket: Tests, T20s and that tall, slim bloke with the graphs and diagrams
Peter Crossing has a go at deciphering the state of the land’s premier summer sport through opposite ends – the traditional Test and the upstart T20, both under pressure at the moment for different reasons.