Published 30 March and 30 November each years and initiated in November 2000 after Australian cricket team chaplain Mark Tronson moved sideways after 17 years to kick start Life After Cricket.
The editorial team consists of Allan Border, Greg Chappell, David Boon, Kim Hughes, NSW and CIC Cricket representatives, with Mark Tronson as the publisher. Each State posts out the newsletter to their own retired Australian cricketers and current Australian cricketers and an e-vision is sent for those with email.
Since its inception this bi-annual cricketers newsletter has hosted one page of cricket news, and with so much cricket news available across the breadth of media it seemed that this newsletter had developed past being a news provider.
As Cricketer Respite is the main focus of the Life After Cricket ministry it seemed logical therefore to both concentrate on Respite in the Newsletter, and as such, a paradigm shift has taken root.
Life After Cricket is a ministry of Well-Being Australia which provides Respite to Australian Institute of Sport athletes and coaches in three facilities sponsored by Mr Basil Sellers AM, Timeout in Moruya, Timeout in the Tweed and the third, Laguna Quays.
Cricketers have been invited to Basil Sellers Tweed which is a unit in the Surfing Australia High Performance Centre and the Mainwaring Resort, a major combined project sponsored by the Australian Sports Commission.
Now the cricket fraternity has been invited to also make use of the Laguna Quays Respite house which is located on the Whitsundays mainland next to the Laguna Quays Golf Resort.
The 30 November Retired Australian Cricketers Bi-Annual Newsletter features a photograph of the dawn over Repulse Bay, taken from the veranda of the respite facility.
Dr Mark Tronson is a Baptist minister (retired) who served as the Australian cricket team chaplain for 17 years (2000 ret) and established Life After Cricket in 2001. He was recognised by the Olympic Ministry Medal in 2009 presented by Carl Lewis Olympian of the Century. He has written 24 books, and enjoys writing. He is married to Delma, with four adult children and grand-children.
Mark Tronson's archive of articles can be viewed at www.pressserviceinternational.org/mark-tronson.html