{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2013}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Alec Astle | image = | fullname = Alec Morrison Astle | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|8|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = Feilding, New Zealand | family = Todd Astle (son) | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right arm medium-fast | club1 = Central Districts | year1 = {{nowrap|1973/74–1978/79}} | columns = 2 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 2 | runs1 = 4 | bat avg1 = – | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 4* | deliveries1 = 120 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | column2 = List A | matches2 = 1 | runs2 = 0 | bat avg2 = 0 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 0 | deliveries2 = 56 | wickets2 = 1 | bowl avg2 = 16 | fivefor2 = 0 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 1/16 | catches/stumpings2 = 0/– | date = 16 February | year = 2010 | source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36269.html Cricinfo }} '''Alec Morrison Astle''' (born 5 August 1949) is a former New Zealand cricketer, schoolteacher and cricket administrator.
==Life and career== 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.<ref name=KW/> After that, he served as national development manager for New Zealand Cricket in Christchurch for more than 10 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricinfo.com/newzealand/content/story/124760.html|title=Quiet revolution underway in New Zealand cricket|author=McConnell, Lynn|date=2003-08-06}}</ref> He then worked for Spark as a community sport manager.<ref name=KW/> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alec Astle Recognised for Service |url=http://www.christchurchmetrocricket.org.nz/newsarticle/75144?newsfeedId=678079 |website=Christchurch Metro Cricket |access-date=23 January 2021}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Astle |first=Alec |year=2014 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Sport development - plan, programme and practice : a case study of the planned intervention by New Zealand cricket into cricket in New Zealand |publisher=Massey Research Online, Massey University |hdl=10179/6619 |url=https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/6619}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |last=Astle |first=Alec |year=1975 |type=Masters thesis |title=An evaluation and application of the minimum requirements method of economic base analysis to the delineation of the functional structure of New Zealand urban places, 1971 |publisher=Massey Research Online, Massey University |hdl=10179/12325 |url=https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/12325}}</ref><ref name=KW>{{cite news |last1=Wilkie|first1=Kelsey|title=Alec Astle, Jacob Oram take stage at Massey graduation|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/68462143/alec-astle-jacob-oram-take-stage-at-massey-graduation|access-date=23 January 2021 |work=Manawatū Standard |publisher=Stuff |date=12 May 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sport Development in Action |url=https://www.routledge.com/Sport-Development-in-Action-Plan-Programme-and-Practice/Astle-Leberman-Watson/p/book/9781138895829 |website=Routledge |access-date=23 January 2021}}</ref> With fellow Central Districts and Manawatū player Murray Brown, Astle wrote ''125 Not Out'', the official history of the Manawatū Cricket Association, in 2021.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lampp |first1=Peter |title=Manawatū cricket history recorded in new book |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/opinion/300209883/manawat-cricket-history-recorded-in-new-book |access-date=23 January 2021 |work=Manawatū Standard |publisher=Stuff |date=20 January 2021}}</ref>
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