Colin "Tich" Wesley (5 September 1937 – 5 March 2022) was a South African
cricket
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er who played in three
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in 1960.
Wesley played
first-class cricket
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for
Natal
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from 1957 to 1966 as a middle-order batsman and left-arm spin bowler. He toured England with the
South African team in 1960. His highest first-class score was 131, made after Natal
followed on
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against the
New Zealanders in 1961–62. His only century in the
Currie Cup
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came in his last first-class season, when he captained Natal B against
North Eastern Transvaal and made 120 in the first innings, the only century in the match.
He briefly returned to provincial cricket to captain the Natal team, which played under the name "C. Wesley's XI", in the first season of
South Africa's domestic List A competition in 1969–70; they lost the final by two runs.
He owned Wesley's, a chain of tobacco stores in South Africa. He died at home in
Johannesburg
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on 5 March 2022, at the age of 84.
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1937 births
2022 deaths
South Africa Test cricketers
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KwaZulu-Natal cricketers
South African Universities cricketers
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South African businesspeople
White South African people