Brian Douglas Richardson (15 May 1932 – 28 April 2020) was an Australian
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 striki ...
er.
He played five
first-class matches for
Tasmania between 1954 and 1970.
He scored 112 for Tasmania in the match against the touring
MCC in January 1966. He played club cricket in Hobart for 24 years, scoring 9,612 runs at an average of 35.21 and taking 306 wickets at 18.50. In the 1968-69 season he scored 1001 runs for Kingborough at an average of 66.73.
Richardson worked as a horticulturist in the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture. He spent ten years as Director of a
World Bank aid project in Kashmir.
See also
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List of Tasmanian representative cricketers
References
External links
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1932 births
2020 deaths
Australian cricketers
Tasmania cricketers
Cricketers from Hobart
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