Michael Kelsey "Kim" Elgie (born 6 March 1933) is a former South African

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 who played in three

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in the 1961–62 series against New Zealand. He was also a

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footballer, who played for

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eight times as a centre while he was studying at the

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in the 1950s. Elgie was educated at

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before attending university in the United Kingdom. He hit his top first-class score of 162 not out for Natal against Border in the 1959–60 season in a match in which 38 wickets fell for 418 runs.Andrew Ward, ''Cricket's Strangest Matches'', Robson, 1999, pp. 186–88.

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* 1933 births Living people South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers KwaZulu-Natal cricketers Scottish rugby union players Scotland international rugby union players Alumni of the University of St Andrews University of St Andrews RFC players Alumni of Michaelhouse {{Scotland-rugbyunion-bio-stub

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