|PIC1|This specialised Newsletter aimed at retired cricketers and their families was established on the 30 November 2000, at the time when Baptist minister Mark Tronson moved sideways to 'Life After Cricket' after having been chaplain to the Australian cricket team for 17 years.
The editorial team consists of some prominent former Australian cricketers: Allan Border (Qld); Phil Emery (NSW); Jason Bakker and Shaun Graff (Vic); David Boon (TAS); Greg Chappell (SA), and Kim Hughes (WA). M V Tronson is pleased to have them on board.
"That inaugural year also saw a fresh start in many ways for myself and my wife, Delma, when we initiated our ministry Well-Being Australia," M V Tronson explained. "Due to ill health, we were released by Heads of Churches from the management of the Sports and Leisure Ministry which we had pioneered 18 years previously. In that role, we had appointed 150 chaplains to professional sports."
'Life After Cricket' is a part of Well-Being Australia, as is the Art ministry which also provided a methodology for recuperation.
Nine years ago, their focus was on 'athlete respite', (for which they themselves had personal experience) 'Basil Sellers Moruya' (NSW south coast, two hours' from the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra). In 2006 they relocated to the Tweed on the NSW far north coast, bordering with Coolangatta in Queensland, where they have replicated these respite facilities, 'Basil Sellers Tweed'.
This Retired Cricketer's bi-annual newsletter, published on 30 November and 30 March each year, representing the start and end of the traditional cricket season, has maintained its simplicity.
It is only one page; the fist side consists of retired cricketers news items, while the other side contains any required housekeeping, and concludes with the 'Chaplains Chat' written by Mark Tronson.
"We have firm evidence that many retired cricketers actually read it, because we regularly receive change of address notices from those who move house," noted M V Tronson.