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Australian Services XI
The Australian Services XI was a cricket team comprising solely military service personnel during World War II. They became active in May 1945 after the defeat of Nazi Germany. The team played matches against English cricket sides of both military and civilian origins to celebrate the end of the war. These matches were aimed at increasing morale in the war-ravaged English cities and as a means of reviving cricket after the conclusion of fighting. The end of the war marked the start of the 1945 cricket season.Perry, p. 102. Plum Warner organised a series of matches between England and Australian servicemen, known as the Victory Tests, to celebrate the end of hostilities.Perry, p. 103. However, Australian cricket administrators would not accredit the three-day matches as official Test matches,Pollard (1988), p. 366. arguing that there were not enough Test-level players in the armed services; Lindsay Hassett was the only Australian who had Test experience.Whitington, p. 65. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismiss each batter (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side either catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground, or hitting a wicket with the ball before a batter can cross the crease in front of the wicket. When ten batters have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cec Pepper
Cecil George Pepper (15 September 1916 – 22 March 1993) was an Australian first-class cricketer who became a professional in English league cricket and later a first-class umpire in England. An allrounder, he was the first to complete the double twice in the Central Lancashire League. He once scored 38 runs off an eight-ball over. Cricket career Cec Pepper played first-class cricket for New South Wales from 1938–39 to 1940–41. He fought in World War II in the Middle East and New Guinea, and at the end of the war he played for Australian Services cricket teams in England (the "Victory Tests" series) in 1945 and in India, Ceylon and Australia in 1945–46. Career highlights included an innings he played for New South Wales at Brisbane in 1940–41 when he made 81 with all but 7 of them coming in boundaries. His only century came when he hit 168 in 146 minutes, with 17 fours and 6 sixes, for the Australian Services XI against H.D.G. Leveson-Gower's XI at Scarborough in 1945. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Price (cricket)
Charles Price may refer to: *Charles Price (Protestant), 16th-century Protestant *Charles Price (Royalist) (died 1645), Welsh soldier and politician *Sir Charles Price, 1st Baronet (1747–1818), British merchant and politician *Sir Charles Price, 2nd Baronet (1776–1847), British banker *Charles Price (Old Patch) (died 1787), otherwise 'Old Patch', was a prolific English forger and swindler * Charles Price (minister) (1807–1891), English-born Congregational minister in colonial Tasmania *Charles Edward Price (1857–1934), British Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Central, 1924–1929 * Charles Basil Price (1890–1975), Canadian soldier * Charles C. Price (1913–2001), American chemist * Charles F. Price (born 1938), American non-fiction author *Charles F. B. Price Charles Frederick Berthold Price (September 18, 1881 – January 23, 1954) was a Lieutenant General of the United States Marine Corps, who saw service during Cuban Pacification, Spanish–American War, World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Whitington
Richard Smallpeice Whitington (30 June 1912 – 13 March 1984) was an Australian first-class cricketer who played for South Australia and after serving in World War II, represented the Australian Services cricket team, which played in the Victory Tests. He became a journalist, writing as R. S. Whitington. Early life Whitington was born in the Adelaide suburb of Unley Park, the younger son of businessman Guy Whitington (c. 1880 – 5 February 1954) and a member of the distinguished Whitington family of South Australia. He attended Scotch College, Adelaide, before studying law at the University of Adelaide and becoming a lawyer. He married Alison Margaret "Peggy" Dale on 19 December 1939; they divorced in 1942. He served in the Middle East as a captain with the 2/27th Battalion of the Second AIF. Cricket career Whitington began his state cricketing career for South Australia at the age of 20 in November 1932 under the captaincy of Victor Richardson as an opening batsman. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Johnson (cricket Administrator)
Keith Ormond Edley Johnson (28 December 1894 – 19 October 1972), was an Australian cricket administrator. He was the manager of the Australian Services cricket team in England, India and Australia immediately after World War II, and of the Australian team that toured England in 1948. The 1948 Australian cricket team earned the sobriquet ''The Invincibles'' by being the first side to complete a tour of England without losing a single match. Johnson joined the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket in 1935 as a delegate for New South Wales and served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, performing public relations work in London. With the allied victory in Europe, first-class cricket resumed and Johnson was appointed to manage the Australian Services team, which played England in a series of celebratory matches known as the Victory Tests to usher in the post-war era. The series was highly successful, with unprecedented crowds raising la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Bremner
Colin David Bremner (20 January 1920 — 13 June 2002) was an Australian first-class cricketer and Royal Australian Air Force officer. Bremner was born in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn in January 1920. He served in the Australian Army during the Second World War, enlisting as a private in August 1940. He remained as a private in the army until his discharge in August 1941. He re-enlisted as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Australian Air Force in January 1942, serving in the maritime patrol No. 461 Squadron RAAF in Europe. Following the end of the war in Europe, Bremner represented the Dominions cricket team in a first-class cricket match against England at Lord's in August 1945; he notably twice stumped Wally Hammond in the match, but only after he had reached a century in each innings. He returned home to Australia with the Australian Services cricket team following the war, stopping off in Ceylon and British India on the homeward journey, where he appeared in three first- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Ellis (cricketer Born 1917)
Reginald Sidney Ellis (26 November 1917 – 21 June 2015) was an Australian pilot, flying instructor and cricketer. Ellis was a pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, flying Lancaster bombers. He flew 11 sorties over occupied Europe. He ranked as a flight lieutenant and was part of No. 463 Squadron RAAF. He also served as a flying instructor in the UK during the war, and continued after the war as a flying instructor with the Royal Aero Club of South Australia.''Wisden'' 2016, pp. 208–9. Ellis played in the Victory Tests in England between ex-servicemen of Australia and England immediately after World War II, and then toured India and Australia with the Australian Services XI. He also played one first-class match for South Australia in 1945/46. A left-arm orthodox spin bowler, Ellis was the most successful of the Services' bowlers in the matches in England, taking 23 wickets at an average of 19.13, with a best performance of 5 for 43 and 5 for 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Cheetham
Albert Cheetham (7 December 1915 – 23 May 1997) was an Australian cricketer. He played twenty-four first-class matches for New South Wales between 1936 and 1946. See also * List of New South Wales representative cricketers This is a list of male cricketers who have played for New South Wales in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. It is complete to the end of the 2017–18 season. The list refers to the sides named as "New South Wales" and does not include pl ... References External links * * 1915 births 1997 deaths Australian cricketers New South Wales cricketers Australian Services cricketers Cricketers from Sydney {{Australia-cricket-bio-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Roper
Arthur William "Mick" Roper (20 February 1917 – 4 September 1972) was an Australian cricketer. He played eleven first-class matches for New South Wales in 1939–40. Roper was a fighter pilot in No. 455 Squadron RAAF stationed in Scotland. See also * List of New South Wales representative cricketers This is a list of male cricketers who have played for New South Wales in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. It is complete to the end of the 2017–18 season. The list refers to the sides named as "New South Wales" and does not include pl ... References External links * * 1917 births 1972 deaths Australian cricketers New South Wales cricketers Cricketers from Sydney Australian Services cricketers Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II Royal Australian Air Force officers Australian World War II pilots {{Australia-cricket-bio-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Williams (cricketer, Born 1911)
Robert Graham Williams MBE (4 April 1911 – 31 August 1978) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for South Australia from 1933 to 1938 and the Australian Services team in 1945. He was awarded the MBE for his services to his fellow prisoners of war during World War II. Life and career Before World War II Graham Williams was born in the Adelaide suburb of St Peters, and attended Prince Alfred College. When he left school he studied at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries, graduating in 1934 as a wool-classer. He worked in Adelaide with the firm Goldsbrough Mort & Co. A tall fast-medium bowler and useful lower-order batsman, Williams had his best season for South Australia in 1937–38, when he took 24 wickets at an average of 24.20 and made 233 runs at 21.18. He also recorded his best bowling figures in that season, when he took 6 for 21 against Queensland on Christmas Day 1937. He spent most of 1938 in Bradford, Yorkshire, broadening his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Price (cricketer)
Charles Frederick Thomas Price (17 February 1917 – 19 February 1997) was an Australian first-class cricketer and Australian Army soldier. Price was born at Sydney in February 1917. He served in the Australian Army during the Second World War, enlisting as a staff sergeant in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps in June 1940. Following the end of the war in Europe in 1945, Price appeared in first-class cricket for the Australian Services cricket team. He played in the first two Victory Tests against England in at Lord's in May and Sheffield in June, in addition to playing against H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI at the annual Scarborough Festival. He took 7 wickets in the Victory Tests, and in the match at Lord's he scored 35 runs batting at number 10, sharing in a stand of 88 with Graham Williams (53) in the Australian Services first innings. In their second innings he was batting alongside Cec Pepper when the winning runs were struck. Price returned home to Australia with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Williams
Eddy Williams (18 September 1915 – 17 January 2008) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class cricket match for Victoria in 1936. See also * List of Victoria first-class cricketers This is a list of Victoria first-class cricketers. The Victoria cricket team have played first-class cricket since 1851, when they played the Tasmania cricket team at Launceston. Below is a chronological list of cricketers to have represented Vi ... References External links * 1915 births 2008 deaths Australian cricketers Victoria cricketers Cricketers from Melbourne Australian Services cricketers {{Australia-cricket-bio-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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