Australian Cricket Hall of Fame
The Australian Cricket Hall of Fame is a part of the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum in the Australian Sports Museum at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. This hall of fame commemorates the greatest Australian cricketers of all time, as the "selection philosophy for the hall of fame focuses on the players' status as sporting legends in addition to their outstanding statistical records." Inductees must be retired from international cricket for at least five years. The Australian Cricket Hall of Fame was an idea conceived by the Melbourne Cricket Club to honour Australia's legendary cricketers. It was opened on 6 December 1996 by the then Prime Minister, John Howard.
The hall of fame opened with ten inaugural members, ranging from Fred Spofforth, a pace bowler who retired from Test cricket in 1887, to Dennis Lillee who played his last Test match in 1984., the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame comprises 49 members. All twelve members of the Australian Cricket Board Team of the Century are included, six of them amongst the inaugural members. The vast majority are men; Belinda Clark was the first woman admitted to the hall when she was inducted in 2014. Clarke and Karen Rolton are the only two female Test captains to have been admitted, along with twenty-one of her male counterparts. Betty Wilson and Rolton became the second and third woman to enter the hall of fame when they were inducted in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
, the selection committee comprises the Melbourne Cricket Club chairman, Peter King, former Australian Test captains, Bill Lawry and Mark Taylor, former Test batsman Paul Sheahan, the Chief Executive of Cricket Australia, James Sutherland, the Chief Executive of the Australian Cricketers' Association, Alistair Nicholson, and media representatives Gideon Haigh and Ben Horne. New members are inducted at the annual Allan Border Medal night.Key
