Bob Merriman

Bob Merriman AM (born 1935) is a former Australian cricket official and current Mayor of the Borough of Queenscliffe.

Merriman played club cricket with Melbourne Cricket Club and Geelong Cricket Club. He was president of the Geelong Cricket Association from 1965 to 1976, the president of Cricket Victoria from 1997 to 2007 and Australia's delegate on the International Cricket Council's executive and ICC development international boards.

He managed the Australian team to India in 1979 and became the Australian Cricket Board's first full-time manager from 1984 to 1986, which included tours to England, India, the United Arab Emirates and New Zealand. During this time he completed reading Kim Hughes' speech of resignation when the latter was unable to finish.[1][2][3]

From 2001 to 2005 he was chairman of Cricket Australia. In January 2003 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia.[4]

Since 2008, Merriman has served as councillor at the Borough of Queenscliffe, the smallest local government area in the state of Victoria. In November 2018, Merriman was elected mayor.[5]

In January 2019, Merriman was quoted by the Geelong Advertiser as saying, "we came here to improve things and some of the people who owned the land also enjoyed some significant change in their lifestyle," in reference to the massacre of Indigenous Australians by the British.[6]

References
  1. Sidharth Monga. "Bob Merriman recalls the saddest day in his cricketing life | Cricket". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  2. "Twenty years since Australian cricket bottomed out – Cricket". Smh.com.au. 26 November 1984. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  3. "An experiment in cricket administration ends It's stumps for Merriman". The Canberra Times. 60 (18, 442). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 30 March 1986. p. 4 (SPORT). Retrieved 22 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Robert Frederick Merriman". Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  5. "Cr Bob Merriman AM, Mayor – Borough of Queenscliffe". www.queenscliffe.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  6. Reed, Olivia (20 January 2019). "Majority of region's councillors want Australia Day date kept". Geelong Advertiser. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
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