Paul Lyndhurst Winslow (21 May 1929 – 24 May 2011) was a South African

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er who played in five

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from 1950 to 1955. He was born in

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and died in

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in the same city. Winslow was chiefly a hard-hitting middle order batsman who had success for

, but he retired from cricket aged 30 to go into business when it became clear that he would not regain his place in the South African national team. Winslow's father

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was a leading

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player, winning two gold medals at the

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and a bronze in

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, and Winslow's grandfather

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played

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for

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, scoring a century on debut against

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.Overson, p. 9. In five Tests, Winslow played just one great attacking innings, at Old Trafford on the Saturday of the Third Test of 1955, scoring 108 in a little over three hours against the England attack, then one of the best in the world, with Tyson, Lock, Bailey and Bedser in the side, going to his hundred, just before tea, with a straight six into the practice ground at the Stretford end. In the 1950s, such innings were rare, and nothing like it was seen in a Test on the ground for another 25 years. It turned the match, which South Africa narrowly won.

Sources

* Overson, C. "... and never got another one", ''The Cricket Statistician'', No. 144,

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, Nottingham, UK.

References

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