SACA ANNUAL REPORT 2012/2013 THE 142ND ANNUAL AND FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2013 IS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CRICKET ASSOCIATION HELD AT THE PHAR LAP ROOM AT MORPHETTVILLE RACECOURSE ON 17 SEPTEMBER 2013. Photo credit: Cover & inside cover, Orange Lane Studios SACA STRATEGIC PLAN 5 SCORPIONS McLACHLAN’S MANY MILESTONES 6 25 BUPA SHEFFIELD SHIELD CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REPORT 10 26 STATE PLAYER AWARDS NEW LOOK ADELAIDE OVAL TAKES SHAPE 12 27 INTERNATIONAL & DOMESTIC SEASON CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 14 28 GAME DEVELOPMENT HIGH PERFORMANCE 17 30 COMPETITIONS ADELAIDE STRIKERS READY TO STRIKE 18 36 GRADE CRICKET DEBUTS 20 40 Catering EMERGING REDBACKS 21 60 MEMBERSHIP PREMIER LEAGUE 22 61 SPONSORSHIP RYOBI ONE DAY CUP 64 23 SACA BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 2012/2013 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS 24 66 SACA OFFICE BEARERS 68 2012/2013 FINANCIAL 70 REPORT 4 VISION MISSION To lead the way to To dominate cricket in be South Australia’s Australia and be South favourite sport. Australia’s most sought after membership, be worthy of SCAN QR CODE our loyal fans. FOR MORE INFORMATION. SACA STRATEGIC PLAN 2012/2014 STRATEGIC GOALS 2012/14 Objective 1 Objective 4 Put cricket fans and SACA Increase participation targeting new Members first. players and fans. Objective 2 Objective 5 Protect and promote SACA’s Be a place where our people brands and reputation. matter and are engaged to achieve optimal performance. Objective 3 Dominate Australian domestic Objective 6 cricket through development of Grow investment in South ‘internationally-ready’ players and Australian cricket. officials and competition success. Objective 7 Contribute to the strategic and cultural unification of Australian cricket. 5 6 McLACHLAN’S MANY MILESTONES In putting together my final report to the members In 2005, we turned our attention to the Members’ of this unique organisation, I would like to cover Stand, which had been built in 1932 and was several of the major events of recent years and certainly looking a bit worse for wear. While an offer what I feel may be some of the challenges of 11,000 seat grandstand was considered at first, we the future. subsequently knew that a bigger one would be required if AFL was to return to Adelaide Oval. So a As I look back over my 30 years as a SACA Board 14,000 seat stand was designed, and, importantly, member – 13 as President – there have been the northern mound, heritage scoreboard and many significant milestones, events and cricket Moreton Bay fig trees would stay. matches. I feel very privileged and lucky to have been a part of SACA for such a long time. It is a Over the years our members have been extremely special club – truly South Australian at its core. patient during these redevelopments; in the summer we will be in a position to host world-class When I became president, we already had events, and will be joint custodians of a state-of- problems with retractable lights, which we had the-art venue. put in as we felt the Adelaide City Council would not approve fixed towers. As history shows, a It is worth recording that our balance sheet malfunction to one pole whilst being repaired showed that after we had been paid $85 million meant that the four retractable towers had to be for the lease and the improvements, we still had serviced each year for reasons of insurance, and over $59 million of assets on the books. While this the economics and time involved rendered the was the case we could not ask to be paid for retractable lights somewhat of a problem. The those assets because they were in the form of builder was Baulderstone, and it is to their credit buildings and grandstands that the Government is that they agreed to put up replacement lights, rebuilding for the joint venture with football. but of course they would have to be standing lights. And so that is what happened. It was an So what was all this about when, you might important period for SACA, and one that has say (as some did), our primary job was to run enabled Adelaide Oval to host bigger and a cricket association? Well, the answer is that better events. things change, and people want better facilities and will choose their entertainment amongst an Your Board felt that if we were to continue the assortment of offerings of other recreations - or renovation of the ground, the public area had simply stay home and watch it on television. to come first, as it was so bad. So the Chappell Stands were constructed in a lighter style to And I am pleased to say, the members are voting contrast with the more formal arches of the with their feet. Our membership has risen from Members’ stand on the west. 12,500 in 2009 to almost 24,000 this financial year. In addition, around 30% of us take a transferable In the process we borrowed about $20 million ticket each year which means that we expect which took our total borrowings to close to $30 to have about 33,000 members’ tickets this year. million - which was quite manageable, and still It is just possible that SACA now has the largest enabled SACA to make a small profit each year. membership of any purely cricket club in the world, certainly well in front of MCC at Lords (of While contemplating what to do next, former course, the MCC in Melbourne is a combined curator Les Burdett caught the Board in a football and cricket membership). benevolent moment and the outfield was drained, irrigation set up and re-laid with Santa And all this shows that if the facilities are there, Anna couch, which has produced perhaps the people will join, wanting to be part of a club, best outfield in the world. During this current and to be part of a fun and entertaining redevelopment, the same approach is being good experience. used – and I am confident the ground and wicket (which also have been continuously improved with new soil and grass) will match its previous excellence. 7 “AS I look back over my 30 years as A SACA Board member – 13 as President – there have been many significant milestones, events and cricket matches.” Members are the basis of a sporting club. They to ensure benefit to all so that no side feels underpin the finances of the enterprise and I disadvantaged. It is important that SACA and the congratulate the SACA members for the foresight SANFL have total control of the ground for their and particularly the patience you have shown respective seasons, and joint control of servicing while all these changes have been taking place. the precinct for the whole year with AOSMA. I also want to thank you again for your Of course, none of this could possibly have overwhelming support in May 2011, when we happened if the two sports were not to be left in asked you to vote to approve the return of AFL control of the ground. to Adelaide Oval, and to accept the required changes to our Constitution. It was reassuring for It is to be hoped that the people that are the Board to know that 80.3% of you felt it was appointed to the AOSMA Board over the years will the right time to move forward, and to make be those who understand the privilege that they a once-in-a-lifetime change to the sporting have bestowed on them and operate accordingly. landscape in our state. I know that the SANFL Board members agree. As far as cricket is concerned, your Board believes I would hope that from time to time non SACA or that the new grandstands and indoor cricket non SANFL members might be appointed by those facility, practice wickets and general ambience two organisations to balance out the abilities on of the ground will encourage more people – of the AOSMA Board. all ages – to come to the newest (and oldest in As I said in the first edition of our member some aspects) but still the loveliest major ground magazine Stumps, our cricket has been in the world. disappointing, although there have been recent As well, I can assure you that the names of improvements in the shorter version. those who have been honoured in the past There has been a batting slump in the whole will be retained somewhere in the ground. I’m country and SA has been no better than the rest. looking forward to seeing Basil Sellers’ wonderful I believe that the centralisation of coaching is not sculptures of four cricketers and four footballers always the way to the best results, and certainly being completed over the next several years. Australia is short of the batting technique that is The design has been approved every step of the required in the longer forms of the game. way by our board representatives on the Adelaide Finally, I must say that it has been a great pleasure Oval Stadium Management Authority (AOSMA). to have been the president of the SACA and I We believe we have created an architectural and want to thank the Board members for putting up engineering feature, and I hope that you - the with me, in particular Rex Sellers as my deputy members who have supported this enormous who has provided great stability and support. change - will agree. I believe that the SACA financial arrangements Membership of the SACA will be exactly as it has are well set up for the future, underpinned by the been in the past, including all cricket and SANFL membership, and as long as the six shareholder matches, and those of you who wish to join for the states retain the right to elect board members winter will have a wonderful ground on which to to the board of Cricket Australia, then the watch AFL at the highest level, and we encourage organisation will prosper.