Francis Brew (5 July 1903 – 13 January 1974) 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 in 27
first-class matches for
Queensland
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between 1924 and 1934,
and in 1938 he became a member of the Queensland state selection committee.
In
Brisbane Grade Cricket
Queensland Premier Cricket is the top cricket competition played in Queensland, Australia. The competition was founded under the name Brisbane Electoral Cricket in 1897 and eventually came to be known as Brisbane Grade Cricket, but has since expa ...
Brew played for
Western Suburbs from 1921 to 1941 captaining the club for several seasons.
He was an all-rounder who bowled legspin,
and in grade cricket he regularly opened the batting for Western Suburbs although he was not as successful with the bat in First-class cricket never scoring a century in his state career.
See also
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List of Queensland first-class cricketers
References
External links
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1903 births
1974 deaths
Australian cricketers
Queensland cricketers
Cricketers from Brisbane
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