Gerald Patrick Desmond Hartigan (30 December 1884 – 7 January 1955) was a South African
cricket
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er who played in five
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from 1912 to 1914.
A right-arm fast medium bowler and right-hand batsman, Hartigan made his
first-class career with
Border
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, taking 92 wickets and scoring three centuries.
His best of 176 came against
Eastern Province in 1910–11.
He also played six matches of
soccer
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for
South Africa
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.
[Colin Bryden, ''All-Rounder: The Buster Farrer Story'', Aloe Publishing, Kidd's Beach, 2013, p. 45.]
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1884 births
1955 deaths
South Africa Test cricketers
South African cricketers
Border cricketers
Cricketers from Qonce
South African men's soccer players
South Africa men's international soccer players
Men's association football forwards
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