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Growing up with the Game – ACS Literary Scholar 2026: Liam Grima
By Liam Grima, incoming ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). Cricket has always played a pivotal role in my life. Like many kids in Australia, my summers were spent watching Test cricket on TV, while taping one half of...
Could the USA succeed as a Test playing nation?
By Lorenzo Di-Mauro Hayes, ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). Could the USA succeed as a Test playing nation? Perhaps more importantly, would the American public be open to the addition of cricket in the US summer sporting schedule?...
It’s been a crazy Ashes series.
By Lorenzo Di-Mauro Hayes, ACS Journalism Scholar (mentored by The Footy Almanac‘s John Harms). It’s been a crazy Ashes series. Australia has not fielded their best XI in this Ashes campaign. Josh Hazelwood will not play.. Steve Smith captained the side through the...
“Gatting has absolutely no idea what has happened to it … he still doesn’t know!” – on Shane Warne’s Ball of the Century in 1993.
Richie Benaud
About the Australian Cricket Society
The Australian Cricket Society was founded in 1967 by a group of cricket aficianados led by Melbourne lawyer Andrew Joseph. Along with founding President Radcliffe Grace, their vision was the creation of a fraternity of cricket lovers to celebrate and “repay the tremendous pleasure we receive from the game”.