Twenty-One Years of the ACS

statistician and BBC Radio Wales scorer when he has the time to spare from teaching. After reading geography at Exeter University, he later was awarded a doctorate for research at University College, Cardiff, into suburban development. He taught at Blundell's for six years before he became head of the geography department at Wells Cathedral School in 1993. Powell (born 1964) has been active in a number of cricket areas. He has played for several Hertfordshire clubs and has served a term as hon. William Powell Andrew Hignell team secretary for the Cricket Society XI and has handled membership and publicity for the CMS and he has also been the official scorer for touring teams from Pakistan and Sri Lanka. He was responsible for both editions of the Wisden Guide to Cricket Grounds and he wrote the Middlesex grounds' booklet for the ACS. He is a full, corporate member of the Chartered Institute of Building and is presently working as a planning manager for a multi-million pound project in the London Docklands. Sufficient evidencecan be gleaned from this booklet to suggest that the ACS is set fair to continue to prosper after it passes its 21st anniversary.A committee tinged with new blood has been given a broad mandate from members on the research and publishing paths to be followed and owning its headquarters will be an asset in every sense, even though finances will always need careful watching. Postal charges, staff salaries and sundry hidden costs seem to soar relentlessly.Subscriptions are continually eroded and will have to rise in future years. Cricket,too, will change and this could have an influential bearing on the ACS and its future development. Sir Neville Cardus took as a lifetime theme