Francis Cecil Thompson (17 August 1890 – 24 September 1963) was an Australian

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er who played for

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from 1912 to 1933.

Biography

Educated at

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, Cecil Thompson made his first-class debut against

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in 1912–13.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket'', Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 529. He was one of the leading Queensland batsmen in the 1920s, along with Leo O'Connor. He played for

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in district cricket until moving to

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in 1925. In the 1925–26 season, in matches for Queensland and his South Brisbane club, he scored 1525 runs at an average of 152.50. In 1926–27, in Queensland’s first

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match, he scored their first

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in the first innings (O'Connor scored a century in the second innings). In the 1928–29 Sheffield Shield he scored 743 runs at an average of 74.30; in the whole competition only

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scored more. A careful player, judiciously selecting which ball to hit, Thompson had great powers of concentration, scoring 275 not out in 628 minutes against New South Wales in 1930–31, the highest individual score at the

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. A schoolteacher, Thompson’s cricket career was restricted by country postings. He spent three years in the country after

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and had another country stint from 1933.

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