Details about the email forum and discounts are available in the Members Area any member who does not have the password for this page should contact publish a range of titles which are available in the ACS Online Shop. Members can also join our email forum to share information, ask questions and chat about topical cricketing issues. They are entitled to a 33% discount on subscriptions to the Cricket Archive website and to the CSW cricket database. Members receive our quarterly journal, The Cricket Statistician, and an annual voucher, currently worth £8, towards the cost of our printed publications. Membership is open to everyone – all you need to join us is to share our interest in the statistics and history of the game. We have around 850 members all over the world.
Members of the ACS have significantly contributed to a wider understanding of the game and have led the way in uncovering many biographical details of first-class cricketers. Our principal purpose is ‘to promote and encourage research into the statistical and historical aspects of cricket throughout the world at all levels and to publish the findings’. Founded in 1973, we are an international body represented in over 20 countries, and our members include most of the world’s leading cricket statisticians and several of its most accomplished historians and biographers. If you are intrigued by such conundrums, or if you’re interested in the origins and history of the game, you’ll find a group of like minds in the ACS. Who is the oldest man to hit a Test match century? What is the most expensive bowling analysis in first-class cricket? Does a match start with the toss, the call of ‘Play’ or the first delivery? Further details will be provided when available. both in person and via remote access for those unable to travel to Derby. We are in discussions with Derbyshire CCC regarding their conference facilities and infrastructure, especially the possibility of holding the AGM as a hybrid meeting – i.e.
We hope the meeting, plus the annual lunch, can take place once again at the County Ground in Derby, with an informal get-together the night before in the Travelodge Hotel. The committee are starting to plan our next AGM on Saturday 19 March 2022.