October 2025

Welcome to cricket season 2025 / 2026!
Here is our inaugural newsletter detailing key season dates, competition format and playing conditions. We also have messaging from our President (Guy Randell), Director of Local Competition (Michael Frost), Director of Women’s Team (Jenn Macklin) and Director of Representative Cricket (Wal Murdoch).

Yours in cricket,
CP, Foles and Comms team

Season ahead President’s Report – Guy Randell

I would like to welcome all new players, continuing, supporters, partners and of course our incredible sponsors to season 2025/26.

The board has had some major restructure in the past months bringing a new structure including specific director roles and more support staff.  This is enabling a fantastic leadership group to take us into the years to come. The new board is:

• President – Guy Randell
• Vice President – Joe Gunning
• Secretary – Stephen Cross
• Treasurer – Dave Vincent
• Director Representative – Wal Murdoch
• Director Local Cricket – Michael Frost
• Director Comms/Marketing/IT – Chris Peiris
• Director Women’s Cricket – Jenn Macklin
• Ass Director Local Cricket – Paul Bennett

I would like to firstly thank DMV, Burgess Rawson, ITSM Hub, Finnys and The Tradies for their incredible support to the master’s community. Without there invaluable support we wouldn’t be able to put on as many opportunities.  So please support when you can.

There is now some great updates to the competition including finals series, more teams over three competitions/division, pink balls to align with nationals, inclusion of 40s age group to help with nationals recruitment and a range of new initiatives with a very strong focus on club and player engagement. All these along with the increased player registrations is looking to be an exciting and our best year yet.

We are all in on our nationals programs this year only a month away and have had more players trialling then ever. Overall we are in a very good position and more sponsorship will help to mitigate costs as we move forward.  We are looking to significant improvement across all age groups and hopefully bringing home some trophies soon against the stronger states. 

We have had some an unprecedented amount of players represent Australia and Australia A this year and we will highlight them in our socials. 

Masters cricket is in a very strong place with increased recognition, alignment with Cricket Australia and more players, sponsors and support than ever.  I encourage all players and supporters to keep being an advocate for our great game and encourage more and more to come along. Even if only for the mental health aspect of being in a change room, playing with mates and sharing a story. 

Yours in Cricket

Guy Randell

Local Competition Update – Michael Frost

The 2025-2026 cricket season will see an increase to the number of teams participating in the CACTM local competitions. There will be 3 separate competitions:

• Premier One (Over 40’s) (8 Teams)
• Premier Two (Over 40’s) (6 Teams)
• Classics (Over 55’s) (6 Teams)

For the first time, we will welcome Riverina to the Premier Two competition! Good luck to our friends from the bush!

The draw will be on PlayHQ soon with the 2 x Premier competitions commencing on Sunday 19^thOctober and the Classics commencing on Sunday 26^th October. All 3 competitions have semi-finals and a final towards the end of the season, and we will hopefully be able to also showcase our Masters players with a local T20 carnival in March 2026. All 3 competitions will be using Pink Balls for the first time. Very exciting.

Cricket ACT Masters Over 55’s – National Championships in Bunbury & Busselton (WA)
The ACT will be sending two teams across to WA in November (16-21) to participate in the National Over 55’s Championships. There has been a squad of 26 selected along with a couple of reserves. The final sides will be announced after the trial match on 12^th October.

ACT Masters Women’s Team (2026) – Jenn Macklin

Jenn Macklin has joined the CACTM Committee as the women’s representative and is working to establish ACT teams for the 2026 National Championships to be held in Tasmania. Jenn will be playing for NT/SA this year at the Perth National Championships in November to understand the requirements and challenges for setting up future ACT teams – and to have some fun! Please encourage women cricketers in your networks who might be interested in playing Masters cricket to contact Jenn at: gajenn1968@gmail.com  

Summary of 25-26 Nationals Championships – Wal Murdoch

• Over 70s: Recently held on the Sunny coast 27 Aug – 2 Sep 2025, ACT Div 1 drew the pool of death and lost their 3 pool games to NSW by 21 runs, Vic and Qld by 4 and 3 wickets respectively. They finished off with a 7 v 8 playoff win against WA by 5 wickets. Notable performances by Murray Harrison (96 runs, 6^th overall), Vince Bulger (8 wickets, 4^th overall) and Geoff Ledger (6 wickets, 10^th overall). Div 2 went 0 and 4 losing to both Victorian teams, SA and Tasmania. Peter Moore (65 runs, 9^th overall and 4 wickets, 19^th overall) was the standout performer.
• Over 65s: To be held over the ditch in Christchurch from 22 Nov – 27 Nov 2025. The ACT will send a division 1 team comprising of James Bowman, Mark Campbell, Peter Foley, Geoff Gilbert, Ken Grace, Joe Gunning, Murray Harrison, Martin Kennedy, John Kidd, Gary Page (C), Stuart Parsons, George Preston, Kevin Rosenbaum, Lal Wijesiriwardana.   
• Over 60s: To be held in the Illawarra region from 8 Nov – 13 Nov 2025. The ACT will send 2 teams to compete in divisions 1 and 3. Squads have been named. Peter Solway will make his debut at 60s level as Captain of Division 1.
• Over 55s: To be held in the Bunbury/Busselton region of WA from 15 Nov – 20 Nov 2025. The ACT will send 2 teams to compete in divisions 1 and 2.  Squads have been named.
• Over 50s: To be held in the northern suburbs of Brisbane from 22 Nov – 27 Nov 2025. The ACT will send 3 teams to compete in divisions 1, 2 and 3. Teams have been named. Guy Randell (Div1), Sean Davis (Div2) and Rohan Nishantha (Div3) have been named as captains.
• Over 40s: To be held in Adelaide, SA from 31 Jan – 5 Feb 2026. The ACT will send 2 teams to compete in divisions 1 and 2.  Squads yet to be finalised.

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September 2024

Veterans Cricket ACT 2024 Annual General Meeting
VCACT held it’s AGM on Sunday 15 September 2024 today and the following were elected or re-elected to the board.

Positions up for election and successful candidate.
President – Guy Randell
Vice President – Wally Murdoch
Treasurer – Tony Paterson
40s Rep – Tim Thomson
50s Rep – Chris Peiris
55s Rep – Michael Frost
60s Rep – Miles Boak
65s Rep – Kevin Rosenbaum
70s Rep – Ron Axelby

Also, at the meeting Tony Paterson was bestowed with Life Membership.

Representative Cricket
As mentioned above there are a number of national championships scheduled for 2024:

40s – Perth (WA) 25-29 November 2024
50s – Newcastle (NSW) 3-7 November 2024
55s – Canberra (ACT) 1-5 December 2024
60s – Brisbane (Qld) 11-15 November 2024
65s – Mackay (Qld) 30 Sept-4 October 2024
70s – Dubbo (NSW) 21-26 November 2024

Training continues for Veterans Cricket ACT more broadly – at the ANU Nets on Sundays at 10.30am until the end of September

Age Group Representatives
40’s – Tim Thomson
50’s – Chris Peiris
55’s – Michael Frost
60’s – Miles Boak
65’s – Kev Rosenbaum
70’s – Ron Axelby

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