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Full name | Thomas Welbourn Wall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Semaphore, South Australia | 13 May 1904|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 26 March 1981 76) | (aged|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut | 8 March 1929 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 20 July 1934 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 22 December 2021 |
Thomas Welbourn "Tim" Wall (13 May 1904 – 26 March 1981) was an Australian cricketer who played eighteen Test matches between 1929 and 1934. On his debut, he took five wickets in the second innings against England in Melbourne. [1]
Wall was a school teacher in Adelaide before and after his cricket career. He died in 1981 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. Wall's 10–36 in February 1933 remains the best first-class figures recorded in Australia. [2] It is also the only ten-wicket innings ever recorded for South Australia.
Wall's grandson Brett Swain played 23 first-class matches for South Australia from 1994 to 2001.
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