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Australian Cricket Team In South Africa In 1949–50
The Australia national cricket team toured South Africa from October 1949 to March 1950 and played a five-match Test series against the South African team. Australia won the Test series 4-0. Australia were captained by Lindsay Hassett; South Africa by Dudley Nourse. Australian team * AL Hassett (Victoria) (captain) * KA Archer (Queensland) * RN Harvey (Victoria) * IW Johnson (Victoria) * WA Johnston (Victoria) * GR Langley (South Australia) * RR Lindwall (New South Wales) * SJE Loxton (Victoria) * CL McCool (Queensland) * JR Moroney (New South Wales) * AR Morris (New South Wales) * G Noblet (South Australia) * RA Saggers (New South Wales) * AK Walker (New South Wales) Don Tallon withdrew from the tour party before departure and was replaced by Saggers. Keith Miller was called into the tour party midway through the tour when Johnston was injured in a car crash. Test series summary First Test Second Test Third Test The Australian first innings had an unusua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia National Cricket Team
The Australia men's national cricket team represents Australia in men's international cricket. As the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, playing in the first ever Test match in 1877, the team also plays One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket, participating in both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season and the first T20I, against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season, winning both games. The team draws its players from teams playing in the Australian domestic competitions – the Sheffield Shield, the Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament and the Big Bash League. The national team has played 845 Test matches, winning 401, losing 227, drawing 215 and tying 2. , Australia is ranked first in the ICC Test Championship on 128 rating points. Australia is the most successful team in Test cricket history, in terms of overall wins, win–loss ratio and wins percentage. Test rivalries include The Ashes (with England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geff Noblet
Geffery Noblet (14 September 1916 – 16 August 2006) was an Australian cricketer who played in three Test matches from 1950 to 1953. Noblet's bowling performance in the 1948–49 Australian domestic season was the best by a South Australian bowler in 38 seasons. Noblet took 38 wickets at 15.4, the best for any South Australian taking ten wickets or more in a season since Robert Rees took 10/129 in 1909–10.Kneebone, H. "Noblet, 'Best For 38 Years'", ''The Advertiser (Adelaide)'', 2 September 1949, p. 5 Following Noblet's selection in the Australian team to tour South Africa in 1949–50, the South Australian Cricket Association presented Noblet and fellow South Australian Gil Langley Gilbert Roche Andrews Langley (14 September 1919 – 14 May 2001) was an Australian Test cricketer, champion Australian rules footballer and member of parliament, serving as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1977 to 1979 ... with a gift of their own choosing. Noblet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Watkins (South African Cricketer)
John Cecil Watkins (10 April 1923 – 3 September 2021) was a South African cricketer who played in 15 Test matches for South Africa between 1949 and 1957. At the time of his death aged 98, Watkins was the oldest living Test cricketer and the last surviving member of the side that toured Australasia in 1952–53. Career Watkins was a hard-hitting middle-order batsman, medium-pace bowler, and expert slips fieldsman. He played two Tests against Australia in South Africa in 1949–50, but was unable to get leave to go on the tour of England in 1951. His best series with the bat was in Australia in 1952–53, when he made 352 runs at 35.20. In the Fifth Test at Melbourne, after Australia batted first and made 520, Watkins, batting at number three, hit 92 (his highest Test score) and 50 to help South Africa to victory by six wickets, to square the series two-all. His best bowling figures came in the next Test, against New Zealand at Wellington, where he opened the bowling, takin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Nel
John Desmond Nel (10 July 1928 – 13 January 2018) was a South African cricketer who played in six Tests Test(s), testing, or TEST may refer to: * Test (assessment), an educational assessment intended to measure the respondents' knowledge or other abilities Arts and entertainment * ''Test'' (2013 film), an American film * ''Test'' (2014 film), ... from 1949 to 1957. Nel played 35 first-class games, top-scoring for his team on several occasions. He then went onto commentating on any matches played at Newlands. He worked as a quantity surveyor. Nel married Shelagh Mary Finegan in February 1952 and they had three sons and one daughter. He died on 13 January 2018 at the age of 89. espncricinfo.com; accessed 17 February 2018. References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dal Collins
Dalkeith Valentine Collins (31 July 1907 – 7 January 2001) was a South African cricket umpire. He stood in ten Test matches Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to: * Test cricket * Test match (indoor cricket) * Test match (rugby union) * Test match (rugby league) * Test match (association football) ... between 1949 and 1962. See also * List of Test cricket umpires References 1907 births 2001 deaths Sportspeople from Cape Town South African Test cricket umpires {{SouthAfrica-cricket-bio-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ashman
Richard Gerald Alfred Ashman (24 November 1899 – 15 May 1965) was a South African cricketer and cricket umpire. In domestic first-class cricket, Ashman played six games as a wicket-keeper for Orange Free State from December 1931 to December 1932. Ashman umpired 24 first-class matches in South Africa between 1931 and 1950. His Test umpiring career commenced in 1935 when he officiated in the second South Africa–Australia Test at Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ... in December. His fourteenth and final Test as umpire was in January 1950, another match between South Africa and Australia. References External links * 1899 births 1965 deaths Cricketers from Westminster Free State cricketers South African Test cricket umpires South African cric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demographia, the Johannesburg–Pretoria urban area (combined because of strong transport links that make commuting feasible) is the 26th-largest in the world in terms of population, with 14,167,000 inhabitants. It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa. Johannesburg is the seat of the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa. Most of the major South African companies and banks have their head offices in Johannesburg. The city is located in the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills and is the centre of large-scale gold and diamond trade. The city was established in 1886 following the discovery of gold on what had been a farm. Due to the extremely large gold de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellis Park Stadium
Ellis Park Stadium (known as Emirates Airline Park for sponsorship reasons) is a rugby union and association football stadium in the city of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It hosted the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, which was won by the country's national team, the Springboks. The stadium was the country's most modern when it was upgraded in 1982 to accommodate almost 60,000 people. Today, the stadium hosts both football and rugby and is also used as a venue for other large events, such as open-air concerts. It has become synonymous with rugby as the only time when rugby was not played at Ellis Park was during 1980 and 1981, when the stadium was under construction during the upgrade. The stadium was originally named after Mr J.D. Ellis, who made the area for the stadium available. A five-year ZAR 450 million (US$58 million/ £30 million) naming rights deal was signed in 2008 with The Coca-Cola Company, resulting in the stadium being named Coca-Cola Park betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Follow-on
In the game of cricket, a team who batted second and scored significantly fewer runs than the team who batted first may be forced to follow-on: to take their second innings immediately after their first. The follow-on can be enforced by the team who batted first, and is intended to reduce the probability of a drawn result, by allowing the second team's second innings to be completed sooner. The follow-on occurs only in those forms of cricket where each team normally bats twice: notably in domestic first class cricket and international Test cricket. In these forms of cricket, a team cannot win a match unless at least three innings have been completed. If fewer than three innings are completed by the scheduled end of play, the result of the match can only be a draw. The decision to enforce the follow-on is made by the captain of the team who batted first, who considers the score, the apparent strength of the two sides, the conditions of weather and the pitch, and the time rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Rowan
Eric Alfred Burchell Rowan (20 July 1909 – 30 April 1993) was a South African cricketer who played for Transvaal, Eastern Province and South Africa. An opening batsman, Rowan was a dominant personality in South African cricket for more than 20 years on either side of the Second World War. He sometimes batted without gloves and, allegedly, without a "box" protector, and he was fearless against authority too. This led at times to his omission from the South African Test team, notably when he was left out of the 1947 tour to England. Rowan played for Transvaal from the age of 20, but had to wait five years before making his Test debut on the 1935 tour to England. He had limited success in the Tests on this tour, with a highest score of just 62, but was the leading scorer in first-class games, with 1,948 runs in total and six centuries. In the series against Australia that followed, he began well with 66 and 49 in the first Test, but failed against Clarrie Grimmett in the next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Tayfield
Hugh Joseph Tayfield (30 January 1929 – 24 February 1994) was a South African international cricketer. He played 37 Test matches for South Africa between 1949 and 1960 and was one of the best off spinners the game has seen. He was the fastest South African to take 100 wickets in Tests (in terms of matches played) until Dale Steyn claimed the record in March 2008. He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1956. He was known as 'Toey' due to his habit of stubbing his toes into the ground before every delivery. He would also kiss the badge on his cap before handing it to the umpire at the start of every over. The Tayfields were a cricketing family; Hugh's uncle Sidney Martin played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club and his brothers Arthur and Cyril both played for the Transvaal cricket team as did two cousins, Hugh Martin and Ian Tayfield. Tayfield made his debut for Natal as a 17-year-old in 1945–46. He took a hat-trick against Transvaal aged 18 and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Miller
Keith Ross Miller (28 November 1919 – 11 October 2004) was an Australian Test cricketer and a Royal Australian Air Force pilot during World War II. Miller is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder. His ability, irreverent manner and good looks made him a crowd favourite. English journalist Ian Wooldridge called Miller "the golden boy" of cricket, leading to his being nicknamed "Gold nugget, Nugget". He "was more than a cricketer ... he embodied the idea that there was more to life than cricket". A member of the record-breaking ''Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Invincibles'', at the time of his retirement from Test cricket in 1956, Miller had the best statistics of any all-rounder in cricket history. He often batted high in the Batting order (cricket), order, sometimes as high as number three. He was a powerful striker of the ball, and one straight six (cricket), six that he hit at the Sydney Cricket Ground was still rising when it hit the up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
