Basil Austin Onyons (14 March 188731 May 1967) was an Australian
first-class cricketer who represented
Victoria.
Onyons was originally an
Australian rules football
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er and played for the
Melbourne Football Club
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in the
Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1905 and 1908. He kicked 32 goals from his 37 games, with 16 of them coming in the 1906 season which was the most by a Melbourne player that year.
A right-handed batsman who often opened the innings, Onyons made an inauspicious first-class cricket debut, bagging a
pair at the
Sydney Cricket Ground
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on 25 January 1919 against
NSW.
He didn't play another first-class match until exactly eight years later when he captained Victoria in a game against
Tasmania at the MCG. Despite batting at number eight down the order he made 128.
In a good 1928/29
Sheffield Shield season, Onyons made 582 runs at 72.75 with four hundreds from four games.
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1887 births
1967 deaths
Australian cricketers
Victoria cricketers
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Melbourne Football Club players
Melbourne Cricket Club cricketers
Cricketers from Melbourne
People from Windsor, Victoria