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Scoresheet NEWSLETTER of the AUSTRALIAN CRICKET SOCIETY INC scoresheet NEWSLETTER OF THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKET SOCIETY INC. www.australiancricketsociety.com Volume 37 / Number 1 /SUMMER 2016 Patron: Ricky Ponting AO 2016 footy season launch featuring the MCC president and former Demon champion Steven Smith DATE: Friday, 18 March, 2016 (the week before Easter) TIME: 12 noon for a 12.30pm start. VENUE: The Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, 489 Glenferrie Road,Kooyong. COST: $75 for members and members’ partners; $85 for non-members. BOOKINGS: Bookings are essential. Bookings and moneys need to be in the hands of the ACS Administration Manager Wayne Ross at P.O.Box 4528, Langwarrin, Vic., by no later than Tuesday, 15 March, 2016. Cheques should be made payable to the ACS. Note: Payment by electronic transfer is acceptable. The ACS’s Bank Account details are as follows: BSB 633-000 Account Number 143226314. If you are paying in this way please record your name and the names of any guests for whom you are paying. Wayne Ross’s phone number is 0416 983 888. His email address is acs@asn. cricketvictoria.com.au. OUR GUEST OF HONOUR e are thrilled to welcome the Melbourne Cricket Club’s President Steven Smith, the W200 game Melbourne forward/defender who played for the Demons between 1974 and 1985. During his career he kicked 138 goals and he won the Club’s highest award, the Bluey Truscott Medal for the 1981 season. Steven, who is a partner at the Collins Street Law firm HWL Ebsworth, succeeded Paul Sheahan as President of the MCC during 2015. His inner sanctum insights into the running of one of Australia’s most influential sporting clubs mixed with some favourite footy reminiscences from the days when he was a strong marking centre-half forward and, an accomplished, mobile full-back will both inform and delight his audience on the 18th March. We need to pack out the large dining room at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club for this first Society occasion for 2016. OUR CORPORATE SPONSORS LEGENDS & HEROES Editor: Doug Manning Telephone: (03) 9876 3909 Email: [email protected] Mail: PO Box 89, Ringwood, Vic 3134 Future Activities & Events A DATE FOR THE DIARY – OUR 49TH ANNUAL DINNER This function will be one for the ages. The date of the Society’s 49th Annual Dinner has been set for Thursday, 23 June, 2016 at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club. Our Patron Ricky Ponting has confirmed that he is available and that he will be with us on this special occasion. Ricky, is rated Australia’s finest batsman since the Don. He says that he is looking forward to being our guest of honour on this important occasion in the Society’s calendar. So put this one down in your diary and make a mental note to attend with your partner and friends. There will be more about this function in the Autumn edition of “Scoresheet” due out during May. The President’s Piesse THE SUMMER OF 2015-16 – THE ADMINISTRATORS MUST TAKE THE BLAME. t has been a totally unfulfilling summer, The record early-season crowds for the relieved only momentarily by the brilliance day-nighter in Adelaide, half from this Iof Usman Khawaja across all three levels of side of the border, will not automatically the game. reappear next summer if they know The record Big Bash crowds and the Australia is going to win by an innings in successful staging of the inaugural Day- three days. Night Test Match in Adelaide only mask I feel incredibly sad for the plight of the the scheduling deficiencies which made West Indies right now. Once champions of the 2015-16 season an absolute farce – one the world, they are a fading drawcard. I can’t which surely can never be repeated. see them being granted the glamour Tests in Melbourne and Sydney at peak holiday The inadequate opposition provided by time again …not in this decade nor the next. both New Zealand (for a Test and a half) They’ll be reallocated to the back blocks, and the West Indies throughout their three with wintertime Tests in Cairns and Darwin, Test series diminished the excitement we maybe even in Alice Springs….but never all should have felt at Australia’s run at again at the MCG or the SCG. the world number one ranking in the late The most meaningful internationals of our summer Tests in New Zealand. extended summer – I write this on Test eve James Sutherland and the Cricket from Wellington – could well be at the Basin Australia administration, coupled with Reserve and Hagley Park, Christchurch. the game’s rulers at the ICC cannot afford But unfortunately only those with cable another set of such one-sided encounters television will be able to see these matches on a set of wickets so dead even the players which are ideally time-slotted for a peak complained about them. audience in the eastern states of Australia. Make no mistake. Test cricket is under That needs to change too. siege and no amount of rhetoric from And Uzzie Khawaja? I’ll walk across officialdom will convince me otherwise. broken glass to see him bat. Let’s hope that Teams must insist on three meaningful Rod Marsh and the selectors revisit their lead-up games of red-ball cricket before white ball selections and pick him at No. 3 taking on Australia on home wickets. for the World Twenty/20. Maybe then we Otherwise we will have to be prepared for The President’s 2015-16 favourite: Usman will have a chance. more walkovers – and no one wants that. Khawaja Ken Piesse – President CRICKET SOCIETY LADS IN BOWRAL, 2016 It wasn’t about winning and losing… just the vibe. The Australian Cricket Society ventured to Bowral in January for a game at the famed Bradman Oval and it was a truly wonderful occasion. For those who haven’t played a game with our Wandering XI or Over 60s, do yourself a favour — and get involved. We have so much fun. ACS IN BOWRAL: Back row, left to right: Kel Anderson (ACS Tas), Nathan Hyde, Peter O’Donnell, Ian Hammet, Dick Stumbles, Peter Neville . Front – Adrian McKenzie, Clive Timmins, Mark Browning (c), Ian Fraser (SCA), Greg Johnson 2 / scoresheet Volume 37 / Number 1 / SUMMER 2016 3 Recent Activities & Events THE DARREN BERRY LUNCHEON AT THE KELVIN CLUB –OUR 2015-16 SEASON LAUNCH – FRIDAY, 30 OCTOBER, 2015 n excellent crowd of Society members Jack Potter. David Hookes, the captain of and friends gathered at the Kelvin Club South Australia in the Shield competition, Ain the City on Friday, 30th October to persuaded young Darren to try his hand welcome our guest of honour Darren Berry on at the game in Adelaide, and it was for SA the occasion of the Society’s 2015-16 season that he made his first-class debut late in launch. After our warm-up man Geoff Poulter the 1989-90 season. The next summer he had sent us into fits of laughter with a transferred back to Victoria. There the 19 typically rumbustuous and hilariously funny round-up of jokes ACS President, Ken Piesse introduced our guest of honour, Darren Berry. In a 138 game career with the mighty Vics Darren Berry made 4000 runs at an average of 22 with four 100s. Seven times during his career he was responsible for 40 or more dismissals in a Sheffield Shield season. His record of 557 first-class dismissals as a wicketkeeper is unequalled. ‘Chuck’ Berry’s keeping over the stumps, especially to his Darren Berry with his old mentor and friend mate Shane Warne, was sublime. The pair George Murray toured the West Indies together during 1990 with the Australian Academy side and Redbacks whom Darren was coaching at the in retirement they remain the greatest of time, and the effect that these events had on friends. Berry bookended his career in two him and his outlook on life. Victorian Sheffield Shield winning champion Darren spoke in some detail and very teams, one in 1990-91, his debut season, perceptively about his coaching experiences, and the other in 2003-4 when he captained both with the SA Shield squad and with the Vics to the Shield in his final season. President Ken Piesse with ACS guest Darren the Rajahstan Royals in the Indian Premier Berry League (IPL). There he again worked closely Darren Berry with his old mate Shane Warne who was Darren began his talk by recalling his earliest year-old was immediately welcomed into captain of the Rajahstan Royals at that cricketing years, first at Doveton in the one of the strongest teams the Vics had ever time. Having resigned from his post as Dandenong area east of Melbourne and produced. It included such distinguished senior coach of the SA Redbacks after a then later with the Fitzroy-Doncaster Club in players as Wayne Phillips, Darren Lehmann, successful four year stint, Darren said that the Premier League. There, veteran Society Jamie Siddons, Tony Dodemaide, Paul he was happy to return to Victoria where he member George Murray, who was present Reiffel, and Damien Fleming. No wonder the has bought a property on the Mornington at the luncheon, had a great influence on Vics won the Sheffield Shield that season! Peninsula, not all that far from where our his formative years. He recalled that at the Darren mentioned the sad and untimely President Ken Piesse lives. tender age of 17 years he was called into the deaths of John Scholes and David Hookes, Ken Piesse thanked his good friend for Fitzroy-Doncaster side to succeed the great both in tragic and unexpected situations, taking the time to come and talk to us and Doug Rumble, upon his retirement.
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