Cricket Victoria inducts Life Members

Departing Board members Malcolm Smith and Earl Eddings were honoured for their contribution to Victorian cricket alongside David Kelly, John McConville, Ken Stone, Kevan Carroll, Ross MacKenzie, Jill Crowther, Lorraine Taylor, Sylvia Faram, Robyn Calder and Julie Savage.

Smith served over 22 years in cricket administration as Fitzroy Doncaster’s President from 1991 to 2004, a CV Delegate for 18 years and as a Director since 2000.

After a 232-game career with Northcote and North Melbourne, Eddings was President of the Kangaroos for five seasons, a Delegate for seven years and CV’s representative to Cricket Australia since 2008.

As a stalwart of the Geelong Cricket Club for the past 15 years, Kelly also was bestowed CV life membership.

Long serving members of the Pennant Committee were also honoured with McConville, Stone, Carroll and MacKenzie acknowledged for their significant contribution to the game over the past two decades overseeing the administration of Bartercard Premier Cricket.

Accolades were also forthcoming for key members of the Victorian Women’s Cricket Association (VWCA), with CV recently taking over full governance of the female game.

Crowther, Taylor, Faram, Calder and Savage have been at the forefront of the VWCA’s operations over the past few decades, establishing Victoria as a leader in women’s cricket.

In other news from the meeting, Claudia Fatone has been reinstated to the Board for another three years while Paul Jackson, who was formerly an appointed Director, and former Greenvale Kangaroos President David Maddocks, will fill the remaining elected Director positions vacated by Smith and Eddings.

CV strongly supports the concept of an independent Cricket Australia Board, and is contributing to the acceleration of that by allowing Eddings to stand down ahead of the required timeframe.

For the 2013-14 financial year, the group recorded a profit of $640,494 (company $479,635).

The primary drivers behind the result are surpluses for Melbourne Renegades and Melbourne Stars ($389,519 combined profit), improved CV sponsorship, and the welcome addition of some ‘one-off’ grants related to past agreements with Cricket Australia.

The financial result of the two KFC T20 Big Bash League (BBL) sides was on target with CV’s Strategic Plan which identified BBL|03 as the year where both sides would return a surplus.

There were many highlights in a busy season for CV, including the integration with the VWCA, a world record crowd at the Boxing Day Test and the outstanding progress of the BBL in general, and our Melbourne teams in particular.

A more detailed look at the past 12 months was published in CV’s Annual Report, which was also tabled at the meeting, with a digital copy accessible here.

MEDIA NOTES

ROBYN CALDER
Vice-President – 1999-00 until integration
Executive Committee – 1997-98 to 1998-99
Rules Committee – 1997-98, 2003-04 until integration
Pennant Committee – 1995-96 to 1996-97

KEVAN CARROLL
Pennant Committee – 2003-04 to 2013-14
Melbourne Uni Delegate – 1998-99 to 2011-12
Melbourne Uni President – 1997-98 to 2011-12
Melbourne Uni Admin Manager – 2001-02 to 2012-13

JILL CROWTHER
VWCA Match Results & Registration Secretary – 1965-66 to 2013-14
Pennant Committee – 1965-66 to 2013-14
VWCA Promotions Committee – 1973-74 to 1984-85
Awarded The Pioneers Award for Outstanding Services to Women’s Cricket

EARL EDDINGS
Player Northcote – 1987-88 to 1991-92 (60 matches)
Player North Melbourne – 1992-93 to 2002-03 (172 matches)
President North Melbourne – 2003-04 to 2008-09
Delegate – 2001-02 to 2008-09
Director – 2006-07 to current
CA Representative – 2008-09 to current

SYLVIA FARAM
VWCA President – 1961 to 1966 & 1968 to 1972
VWCA Vice-President – 1975 to 1981
AWCC President – 1978 to 1988
IWCC Delegate – 1982 to 1988

DAVID KELLY
Geelong Delegate – 1998-99 to 2012-13
Geelong President – 1998-99 to 2010-11

ROSS MACKENZIE
Pennant Committee – 1998-99 to 1999-00 & 2008-09 to 2013-14 
Northcote Delegate – 1995-96 to 1996-97, 1998-99 to 2000-01 & 2002-03 to 2011-12
Northcote President – 1995-96, 2002-03 to 2003-04
Northcote Secretary – 1999-00 to 2000-01
 
JOHN McCONVILLE
Pennant Committee – 2004-05 to 2013-14
Carlton Delegate – 2003-04 to 2011-12
Carlton Administration Manager – 2001-02 to 2013-14
 
JULIE SAVAGE
VWCA Board Member – 1990 until integration
Victorian Junior Selector – 1998
Victorian Senior Selector – 2002 to 2005
VWCA Vice-President – 1997-98 & 2007 until integration
VWCA President – 1999 to 2003 & 2006-07
VWCA representative on CV Game Development Committee – 2003 to 2008
VWCA CV Delegate – 2000 to 2003, 2006 & 2011 until integration

MALCOLM SMITH
Player Hawthorn-East Melbourne – 1968-69 to 1970-71 (24 matches)
President Fitzroy Doncaster – 1991-92 to 2003-04
Delegate – 1993-94 to 2011-12
Director- 2000-01 to current

KEN STONE
Pennant Committee – 2004-05 to 2013-14
Footscray-Edgewater Delegate – 1999-00 to 2011-12

LORRAINE TAYLOR
VWCA Board Member – 2009 until integration
VWCA Secretary – 1974 to 1979
Pioneer Victorian Ladies Cricket Association Committee Member – 1975 to 1977
Pioneer Victorian Ladies Cricket Association Secretary – 1977 to 2009