John Lawrence Bevan (10 May 1846 – 31 March 1918) 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 one
first-class match for
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
in 1877/88.
It was South Australia's inaugural first-class match. Despite taking 14 wickets at an
average
In ordinary language, an average is a single number taken as representative of a list of numbers, usually the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are in the list (the arithmetic mean). For example, the average of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 7, ...
of 4.21, and South Australia's innings victory over
Tasmania
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, he never played first-class cricket again. He did, however, play a number of non-first-class matches for South Australia between 1877 and 1882.
See also
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List of South Australian representative cricketers
This is a list of cricketers who have represented South Australia in either a first-class, List A or Twenty20 match.
South Australia's inaugural first-class match commenced on 10 November 1877, against Tasmania at the Adelaide Oval, its first ...
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1846 births
1918 deaths
Australian cricketers
South Australia cricketers
Cricketers from Swansea
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