Related Research Articles
William Morris Lawry is an Australian former cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. He captained Australia in 25 Test matches,winning nine,losing eight and drawing eight,and led Australia in the inaugural One Day International match,played in 1971.
Robert Neil Harvey is an Australian former cricketer who was a member of the Australian cricket team between 1948 and 1963,playing in 79 Test matches. He was the vice-captain of the team from 1957 until his retirement. An attacking left-handed batsman,sharp fielder and occasional off-spin bowler,Harvey was the senior batsman in the Australian team for much of the 1950s and was regarded by Wisden as the finest fielder of his era. Upon his retirement,Harvey was the second-most prolific Test run-scorer and century-maker for Australia.
The Sheffield Shield is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. The tournament is contested between teams from the six states of Australia. Sheffield Shield is named after Lord Sheffield.
Ian Ritchie Redpath is a former Australian international cricketer who played in 66 Test matches and five One Day Internationals between 1964 and 1976. Greg Chappell said he was one of only two players he knew who would kill to get into the Australian Test team,the other being Rod Marsh.
Ashley Alexander Mallett was an Australian cricketer who played in 38 Tests and 9 One Day Internationals between 1968 and 1980. Until Nathan Lyon,he was Australia's most successful off spin bowler since World War II. He extracted a lot of bounce from his high arm action,coupled with his height.
Ian Meckiff is a former cricketer who represented Australia in 18 Test matches between 1957 and 1963. A left-arm fast bowler,he is best known for two matters that were unrelated to his skill as a player:he was the batsman run out by Joe Solomon in 1960,causing the first Tied Test in cricket history;and in December 1963,his career was sensationally ended when he was called for throwing in the First Test against South Africa by Australian umpire Col Egar. During the late 1950s and early 1960s,there had been a media frenzy about the perceived prevalence of illegal bowling actions in world cricket. The controversy and speculation that dogged Meckiff in the years preceding his final match caused sections of the cricket community to believe that he had been made a scapegoat by the Australian cricket authorities to prove their intent to stamp out throwing.
Colin John "Col" Egar was an Australian Test cricket umpire.
Herbert Ironmonger was an Australian cricketer. He played Test cricket from 1928 to 1933,playing his last Test at the age of 50. He is the second-oldest Test cricketer.
Mervyn Roye Harvey was a cricketer who played in one Test match for Australia in 1947. His younger brother,Neil,was one of Australia's finest batsmen,and the pair played together for Victoria during the latter part of Merv's career.
Douglas Thomas Ring was an Australian cricketer who played for Victoria and for Australia in 13 Test matches between 1948 and 1953. In 129 first-class cricket matches,he took 426 wickets bowling leg spin,and he had a top score of 145 runs,which was the only century of his career.
Alan Lloyd Thomson was an Australian cricketer,Australian rules football umpire and school teacher. Thomson,who "bowled off his front leg like a frog in a windmill" played in four Tests and one ODI in the 1970–71 season.
Raymond Harvey was an Australian former first-class cricketer who played for Victoria in the 1940s and 1950s. He was the brother of Australian Test batsmen Merv and Neil and first-class cricketer and umpire Mick Harvey. Ray Harvey was an attacking and talented batsman but failed to reach international standards and only managed to hold down a regular position in the Victorian team in two seasons in the 1950s. This failure to match the standards set by his Test-capped brothers was often attributed to a lack of single-mindedness and hunger.
Jack Potter is a former Australian cricketer who played 81 matches for Victoria. He also represented Australia although never in a Test.
During the 1946–47 Australian cricket season,all rounder Keith Miller represented Victoria and Australia. A 27-year-old right-handed batsman and fast bowler,Miller played in all five Tests against England,performing well with both bat and ball. He finished top of the Australian Test bowling averages,taking 16 wickets at 20.88,and was second in the batting averages,scoring 384 runs at 76.80. On his Ashes debut in the First Test in Brisbane,Miller scored 79 before taking match bowling figures of 9 wickets for 77 runs (9/77) in Australia's innings victory. In the Fourth Test,played at the Adelaide Oval,Miller broke through for his first Test century,scoring an unbeaten 141. A middle-order batsman and right-arm opening bowler,Miller finished the Test series as Australia's joint leading wicket-taker,along with his new ball partner Ray Lindwall,as Australia won the series 3–0.
Hugh Joseph Plant was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria in the Sheffield Shield during the 1930s.
The History of Australian cricket begins over 210 years ago. The first recorded cricket match in Australia took place in Sydney in December 1803 and a report in the Sydney Gazette on 8 January 1804 suggested that cricket was already well established in the infant colony. By 1826,clubs including the Currency Cricket Club,the Military Cricket Club and the Australian Cricket Club had been formed. Hyde Park and the Racecourse were the venue for these organised matches. The formation of clubs in Van Diemen's Land was not far behind with clubs formed in Hobart in 1832 and Launceston (1841). In Western Australia a match was arranged in 1835 between the "builders" of the new Government House and a team of labourers and "mechanics". In Victoria in 1838,the Melbourne Cricket Club was formed –it would become arguably Australia's most exclusive and influential cricket club. In 1839,a club was formed in South Australia.
The 1970–71 Ashes series consisted of seven cricket Test matches,each of five days with six hours play each day and eight ball overs. It formed part of the MCC tour of Australia in 1970–71 and the matches outside the Tests were played in the name of the Marylebone Cricket Club. Ray Illingworth's England team beat Bill Lawry's Australians 2–0 and regained the Ashes,the only full Test series in Australia in which the home team failed to win a Test. "The Momentous Series of 1970–71" was pivotal in cricket history and "essentially ushered in the modern period of Test cricket". It was the first Test series to have more than five Tests and the first One Day International in cricket history was played in Melbourne;like the first test match in history it was won by Australia.
Richard Ivor Maddocks was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. He also played Australian rules football with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of Australia in 1970–71 under the captaincy of Ray Illingworth was its fifteenth since it took official control of overseas tours in 1903–1904. The touring team played as England in the 1970–71 Ashes series against Australia,but as the MCC in all other games. In all there were 26 matches;7 Test matches which they won,2–0,8 other First Class matches,10 minor matches and the first One Day International in the history of cricket,which they lost.
Scott Michael Boland is an Australian international cricketer. A right-arm fast-medium bowler,he also plays domestically for Victoria and the Hobart Hurricanes. In March 2019,he was named the Sheffield Shield Player of the Year by Cricket Australia. Boland is one of a handful of Indigenous Australians to be selected to play for Australia at international level and,as of December 2021,is only the second male Aboriginal player to have played Test cricket for Australia,after Jason Gillespie first achieved this.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Whimpress, Bernard (2004). Chuckers: A history of throwing in Australian cricket. Adelaide: Elvis Press. p. 84. ISBN 0-9756746-1-7.
- ↑ "Premier Legends". Victorian Premier Cricket. 2006. Archived from the original on 14 February 2007. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- ↑ "Register of V.C.A. 1st XI Pennant, District & Premier Cricketers: 1889-90 to 2007-08" (PDF). Victorian Premier Cricket. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
- ↑ "New South Wales Colts v Victoria Colts Other matches in Australia 1959/60" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Player Oracle EP Illingworth" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- ↑ "WM Lawry's XI v J Potter's XI Other matches in Australia 1961/62" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- 1 2 "Victoria v Tasmania Other First-Class matches in Australia 1961/62" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Illingworth Edward Phillip". Victorian Premier Cricket. 2006. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
- ↑ "Sunraysia Cricket Association v Victoria Other matches in Australia 1964/65" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- ↑ "Western Australia v Victoria Sheffield Shield 1964/65" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- 1 2 3 "South Australia v Victoria Sheffield Shield 1964/65" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- ↑ 6/100 means that 100 runs had been scored, but six wickets had been lost in doing so.
- ↑ "Victoria v Western Australia Sheffield Shield 1964/65" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- ↑ "VCA 1st XI CAREER RECORDS 1889-90 to 2007-08". Victorian Premier Cricket. 2006. Archived from the original on 22 July 2008. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- ↑ "Leading All Time Performers" (PDF). Victorian Premier Cricket. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2008. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
- ↑ "Premierships". Victorian Premier Cricket. 2008. Archived from the original on 8 January 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
- ↑ "2004-05 Annual Report" (PDF). Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club. 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-09.