Robert Frederick Merriman (born 22 August 1935) is a former Australian cricket official and local government mayor. Merriman played club cricket with

Melbourne Cricket Club The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) is a sports club based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1838 and is one of the oldest sports clubs in Australia. The MCC is responsible for management and development of the Melbourne Cricket Ground ...

and

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. He was president of the

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from 1965 to 1976, the president of

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from 1997 to 2007 and Australia's delegate on the

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's executive and ICC development international boards. He managed the Australian team to India in 1979 and became the

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's first full-time manager from 1984 to 1986, which included tours to England, India, the United Arab Emirates and New Zealand. During this time he completed reading

Kim Hughes Kimberley John Hughes (born 26 January 1954) is a former cricketer who played for Western Australia, Natal and Australia. He captained Australia in 28 Test matches between 1979 and 1984 before captaining a rebel Australian team in a tour of ...

' speech of resignation when the latter was unable to finish. From 2001 to 2005 he was chairman of

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. In January 2003 he was made a

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. From 2008 to 2020, Merriman served three terms as a councillor at the

Borough of Queenscliffe The Borough of Queenscliffe is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the southern part of the state. It is the smallest local government area in Victoria, covering an area of and, in June 2018 ...

, the smallest local government area in the state of Victoria. He was elected Mayor on two separate occasions. In January 2019, Merriman was quoted by the

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as saying, "we came here to improve things and some of the people who owned the land also enjoyed some significant change in their lifestyle," in reference to the massacre of Indigenous Australians by the British.

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Bob Merriman
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Biography
at Geelong College {{DEFAULTSORT:Merriman, Bob Australian cricket administrators 1935 births Living people Members of the Order of Australia