The Victoria men’s cricket team is an Australian first-class men's cricket team based in Melbourne,Victoria. The men’s team,which first played in 1851,represents the state of Victoria in the Marsh Sheffield Shield first-class competition and the Marsh One Day Cup 50-over competition.
Albert Edwin Trott was a Test cricketer for both Australia and England. He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1899. He is believed to be the only batsman to have struck a ball over the top of the Lord's Pavilion. He is also one of only two players to take two hat-tricks in the same first-class innings,the other being Joginder Rao. Despite his notability,having played in 375 first-class matches including 5 Tests,he was almost penniless when he killed himself at the age of 41.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Thomas "Rony" Stanyforth,was an Army officer and English amateur first-class cricketer,who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England,captaining England in the four Test matches he played in.
George Giffen was a cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia. An all-rounder who batted in the middle order and often opened the bowling with medium-paced off-spin,Giffen captained Australia during the 1894–95 Ashes series and was the first Australian to score 10,000 runs and take 500 wickets in first-class cricket. He was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame on 26 February 2008.
Graeme"Foxy" Fowler is an English former professional cricketer and cricket coach,who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club,England,and later for Durham. He appeared in 21 Test matches and 26 One Day International (ODIs) for England,averaging 35.32 in his Test batting career. After his playing career he founded the centre of excellence scheme at Durham MCCU based at Durham University in 1996,the success of which led the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to establish five more centres;Fowler stepped down as head coach in 2015,after changes in the scheme.
Edwin "Ted" Evans was an Australian cricketer who played in six Test matches between 1881 and 1886.
Craig Edwin Bradley is a former Australian rules footballer and first-class cricketer. He is the games record holder at Carlton in the AFL/VFL,and in elite Australian rules football.
Edwin Lloyd St Hill was a Trinidadian cricketer who played two Test matches for the West Indies in 1930. His brothers,Wilton and Cyl,also played for Trinidad and Tobago;in addition,the former played Test matches for the West Indies.
Shawn Craig is an Australian former first-class cricketer,who is now an umpire.
An England cricket team toured Australia,New Zealand and the United States between September 1881 and March 1882. The tour was privately organised by the professional players James Lillywhite,junior,Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury. In all matches other than Tests,the team was called A. Shaw's XI. In Australia,the tour itinerary consisted of seven first-class matches,including a four-match Test series against Australia. The Test series was won 2–0 by Australia with two matches drawn. The Ashes,which began later in 1882,were not at stake. None of the matches in either New Zealand or the United States have been ascribed first-class status.
Robert Norman Scott Good was an Australian sportsman who played with University in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and represented Western Australia as a first-class cricketer.
Steven Joseph "Steve" O'Shaughnessy is a former English professional cricketer who played for Lancashire and Worcestershire in the 1980s,and then had a substantial career in Minor Counties cricket with Cumberland. Since retiring from playing,he has become an umpire,and was promoted in December 2010 to the first-class panel for the 2011 season.
Robert St Leger Fowler was an Irish first-class cricketer,often regarded as the best Irish cricketer not to have represented Ireland itself. An all-rounder who batted right-handed and bowled off spin,he is perhaps best known for his outstanding all-round performance as captain of Eton College in the match against Harrow in 1910,the match commonly referred to as Fowler's match. After serving in the First World War with the 17th Lancers,during the course of which he was awarded the Military Cross,Fowler played first-class cricket after the war mostly for the British Army cricket team,until his death from leukemia in 1925.
Gerald Fowler was an English cricketer who made 119 first-class appearances for Somerset between 1891 and 1903. A son of William Fowler,a politician,Gerald Fowler was educated at Clifton College and Oriel College,Oxford. He died in 1916 after an operation for appendicitis.
Robert Henry Fowler was an Irish soldier and first-class cricketer of English descent. He died seven weeks before what would have been his 100th birthday,making him the longest-lived person to have played international cricket for Ireland. He is also one of the longest-lived first-class cricketers of all time,having survived for nearly 81 years after he played his first –and only –first-class match.
Major Edward Stanley was an English military officer who played one first-class cricket match for Somerset County Cricket Club as an emergency stand-in in 1884. Somerset had arrived in Manchester a player short for their fixture against Lancashire,and had to seek special permission to include Stanley in their team. Stanley lived in Manchester,but had been born in Somerset,and thus qualified for the county. His only first-class appearance was not successful;he did not bowl,and scored no runs in either innings of the match.
Edwin Healy was an Australian cricketer. He played five first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1931 and 1932.
Wil Brian Parker is a professional Australian rules football player who currently plays for the Collingwood Football Club,and a former domestic cricketer who played for the Victoria cricket team and the Hobart Hurricanes.
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