John Pruen Cordner (20 March 1929 – 10 December 2016) was an Australian sportsman who played

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for

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and

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in the

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(VFL) with

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. Born in

Diamond Creek, Victoria Diamond Creek is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Diamond Creek recorded a population of 12,503 at the 20 ...

, Cordner came from a famous Australian rules football family with three brothers,

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, Denis and

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all having noted careers for the Melbourne Football Club. John spent just one season with Melbourne, in 1951, and played six VFL games. Unlike his brothers, John excelled at cricket and made his first-class debut for Victoria in the 1951/52

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season. Playing against Queensland at Brisbane he dismissed both openers, Leyland Sanders and

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, with his left-arm fast-medium bowling to finish with figures of 2 for 37 in the first innings. Despite playing another three first-class matches he only managed to take one further wicket. The last of those matches was for English side

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when they took on the touring Indian cricket team. He was in England at the time studying nuclear science. He played 34 district cricket matches for

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, and took 80 wickets at 22.1. He died in December 2016.Ando’s Shout: Hawthorn gun Gary Buckenara hands back Carlton legend Bruce Doull’s 1986 Grand Final guernsey
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External links

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John Cordner at ''Demonwiki''.
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cordner, John 1929 births 2016 deaths Melbourne Football Club players Australian cricketers Victoria cricketers Warwickshire cricketers Cricketers from Melbourne Australian rules footballers from Melbourne People from Diamond Creek, Victoria