Alec Morrison Astle (born 5 August 1949) is a former New Zealand cricketer, schoolteacher and cricket administrator.
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| Full name | Alec Morrison Astle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 August 1949 Feilding, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Todd Astle (son) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1973–1978 | Central Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 16 February 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Life and career edit
Astle was born in Feilding. He is the father of Todd Astle. He played two first-class matches for the Central Districts in the 1978–79 season. He also played for Manawatu in the Hawke Cup.
Astle was a long-serving and influential staff member, cricket coach and Deputy Rector of Palmerston North Boys' High School, where he taught for 24 years.[1] After that, he served as national development manager for New Zealand Cricket in Christchurch for more than 10 years.[2] He then worked for Spark as a community sport manager.[1] While in Christchurch he served as President of the Christchurch Metro Cricket Association, and in recognition of his service he received a Lifetime Service Award at the 2019 Sport Canterbury Awards.[3]
He was awarded a master's degree in 1975 and a PhD from Massey University in 2015, writing his doctoral thesis on the importance of the grassroots level of cricket.[4][5][1] He is the co-author of Sport Development in Action: Plan, Programme and Practice (2018), a textbook on the development of sport in communities and schools.[6] With fellow Central Districts and Manawatū player Murray Brown, Astle wrote 125 Not Out, the official history of the Manawatū Cricket Association, in 2021.[7]
References edit
- ^ a b c Wilkie, Kelsey (12 May 2015). "Alec Astle, Jacob Oram take stage at Massey graduation". Manawatū Standard. Stuff. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ McConnell, Lynn (6 August 2003). "Quiet revolution underway in New Zealand cricket".
- ^ "Alec Astle Recognised for Service". Christchurch Metro Cricket. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ Astle, Alec (2014). Sport development - plan, programme and practice : a case study of the planned intervention by New Zealand cricket into cricket in New Zealand (Doctoral thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/6619.
- ^ Astle, Alec (1975). An evaluation and application of the minimum requirements method of economic base analysis to the delineation of the functional structure of New Zealand urban places, 1971 (Masters thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/12325.
- ^ "Sport Development in Action". Routledge. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ Lampp, Peter (20 January 2021). "Manawatū cricket history recorded in new book". Manawatū Standard. Stuff. Retrieved 23 January 2021.