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| Full name | George Maddox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | c. 1811 Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1850/51–1857/58 | Tasmania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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George Maddox (born c. 1811 in Ireland),was an Australian cricket player,who played four games for Tasmania.
He has the distinction of having participated in the first ever first-class cricket match in Australia. Maddox's catch to dismiss the Victorian batsman W. Philpott for 17,off the bowling of Robert McDowell,was the first-ever catch in first-class cricket in Australia.
George Maddox died on 7 July 1867 in Melbourne,Victoria at the age of 56.
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