ONE of the men behind the formation of the Merben South Cricket Club has been made a life member of the Sunraysia Cricket Association.

Bob Walder, whose meeting with the late Trevor Gebert at the Merbein pub after the two sides played in the final round of the 1976/77 season led to the merger of Walder's Merbein and Gebert's South Merbein to form the town's cricket club that still plays today, wa...