George William Ferguson (September 17, 1912 – 1995) was a

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who played for

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in first-class matches between 1930 and 1938 against touring sides from England. He was also a member of the South American cricket team that toured England in 1932. Ferguson was a right-handed middle order batsman. He first appeared for Argentina as a 17-year-old in three matches against

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's XI in early 1930: though his highest score was only 22, he averaged almost 17 runs an innings. On the 1932 tour, he played in all six first-class matches and had success in the first and the last. Against

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he made 85 with a five and 11 fours, and added 159 in 130 minutes with Henry Marshal, who made 153. That score was to prove his career highest in first-class matches, but he also passed 50 in the final match, against

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, when his 60 was the top score in the match for the South American team. On the tour as a whole, he made 264 runs at an average of 24 in the first-class games, and 484 runs, average 25.47, in all matches, with a highest of 95. His final three first-class matches were in the 1937-38 season for Argentina against Sir Theodore Brinckman's XI, a touring team of English county cricketers led by R. E. S. Wyatt. He had limited success in these matches, with a highest score of just 36. In non-first-class cricket, Ferguson represented Argentina against a touring MCC as late as 1959, and he represented South of Argentina against North of Argentina in the annual match most years between the 1929-30 season and the 1965-66 season. In his last game at this level, he was joined by his son, Tony Ferguson whose own two sons,

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and

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have represented Argentina in

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matches in the early 21st century.

References

George Ferguson
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, 1933 edition, page 508-520, reports on the South American tour to England in 1932.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferguson, George 1912 births 1995 deaths Argentine cricketers Argentine people of Scottish descent Cricketers from Buenos Aires South Americans cricketers