John Lewis Benjamin Tabart (30 November 1827 – 9 September 1894), was an English
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 ...
player, who played five games of
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...
for
Tasmania
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He has the distinction of having played in the
first ever first-class cricket match in Australia. In the extremely low-scoring match, his attacking 15 not out in the second innings, after Tasmania had lost six wickets for 15 in pursuit of 36 for victory, was crucial.
[Roger Page, ''A History of Tasmanian Cricket'', Government Printer, Hobart, 1958, pp. 19-20.]
John Tabart died on 9 September 1894 in
Launceston,
Tasmania
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at the age of 66.
See also
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List of Tasmanian representative cricketers
This is a list of cricket players who have played representative cricket for Tasmania in Australia.
It includes players that have played at least one match, in senior first-class, List A cricket, or Twenty20 matches. Practice matches are not i ...
References
External links
Cricinfo Profile
1827 births
1894 deaths
English cricketers
Tasmania cricketers
Cricketers from St Pancras, London
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