Derek Chadwick (born 21 March 1941) is an Australian former sportsman, playing both
first-class cricket with
Western Australia and
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
for
East Perth in the
Western Australian Football League (WAFL).
Chadwick was a right-handed opening batsman who made 4082 runs at 34.30 during his cricketing career, with 9 centuries. He toured New Zealand with
the Australian team in 1969-70. As a footballer he was a wingman and played a at-the-time club record 269 games for East Perth, winning their best and fairest award, the
F.D. Book Medal twice. In 1964 he won a
Simpson Medal for his performances with the Western Australian state team in tours of Melbourne and Adelaide, and was inducted into the WAFL Hall of Fame in 2004.
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1941 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
Western Australia cricketers
Cricketers from Western Australia
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
East Perth Football Club players
West Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees
People from Busselton
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