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| Full name | Alec Morrison Astle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 August 1949 Feilding, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Todd Astle (son) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973/74–1978/79 | Central Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,16 February 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alec Morrison Astle (born 5 August 1949) is a former New Zealand cricketer,schoolteacher and cricket administrator.
Astle was born in Feilding. He is the father of Todd Astle. He played two first-class matches for the Central Districts in the 1978–79 season. He also played for Manawatu in the Hawke Cup.
Astle was a long-serving and influential staff member,cricket coach and Deputy Rector of Palmerston North Boys' High School,where he taught for 24 years. [1] After that,he served as national development manager for New Zealand Cricket in Christchurch for more than 10 years. [2] He then worked for Spark as a community sport manager. [1] While in Christchurch he served as President of the Christchurch Metro Cricket Association,and in recognition of his service he received a Lifetime Service Award at the 2019 Sport Canterbury Awards. [3]
He was awarded a master's degree in 1975 and a PhD from Massey University in 2015,writing his doctoral thesis on the importance of the grassroots level of cricket. [4] [5] [1] He is the co-author of Sport Development in Action:Plan,Programme and Practice (2018),a textbook on the development of sport in communities and schools. [6] With fellow Central Districts and Manawatūplayer Murray Brown,Astle wrote 125 Not Out,the official history of the ManawatūCricket Association,in 2021. [7]