ADELAIDE CRICKET CLUB Inc.

Established 5th September, 1905 An affiliated club of the South Australian Cricket Association Under the Patronage of the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide

th 6 May 2016 PO BOX 177 EDWARDSTOWN SA 5039

Email: Dear Members, [email protected]

Internet: www.adelaidecricketclub.org.au

On behalf of the Committee, I write to you further to previous Playing fields communications regarding SACA’s plans to reduce the number of Glandore Oval South Road Premier Clubs from 13 to 12. Glandore Phone: 8297 7296

SACA chose this path after an independent review of Premier (then Bone Timber Reserve Grade) Cricket recommended fewer clubs in the competition. Park 23 West Terrace Adelaide Over the past 6 months Cricket Australia and SACA have conducted Phone: 8410 5016

Audits and reviews of all 13 Premier Clubs. A Grade Premierships 1905/06 1998/99 The Adelaide Cricket Club believes this review was fair and impartial 1914/15 2003/04 and we also believe that SACA made its decision recommending a 1937/38 merger based on all the information presented to it by the Clubs and 1958/59 1974/75 its own research. West End Cup Premierships 1995/96 It seems strange that now a person not involved in the review process calls for a Parliamentary Enquiry into the proposed merger.

The Adelaide Cricket Club believes that SACA has conducted the review appropriately and arrived at its decision impartially.

We suggest that it is in the best interests of Premier Cricket that all Clubs and their members support SACA in this matter and we urge you to write to your local member by 13th May 2016 confirming this support and No to a Parliamentary Enquiry.

Local members can be contacted to as follows:

Adelaide - MP [email protected] Ashford - Steph Key MP [email protected] Waite - Hon Martin Hamilton-Smith MP [email protected] Elder - Annabel Digance MP [email protected] Davenport - Sam Duluk MP [email protected] Fisher - MP [email protected] Mitchell - MP [email protected]

Yours sincerely,

Neil Ricketts President