Almanac Cricket: Aravinda de Silva

Sri Lankan cricket great Aravinda de Silva was the guest at the Australian Cricket Society’s recent dinner. ACS journalism scholar Liam McCullagh was in attendance, and reflects here on de Silva’s stellar international career.

Almanac Cricket: Blind Cricket and the folly of assumptions

A great extract from a speech given by former Sight Impaired Australian Cricketer, Graeme Innes, at the launch of the All Abilities championships held in the Melbourne Cricket Club’s famed Long Room. Assumptions and discrimination hold so many of us back; “we are limited by the soft bigotry of low expectations.”