Raymond Leo Biffin (born 6 May 1949 in
Launceston) is a former
Australian rules footballer who played with
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
(VFL).
Launceston-born Ray Biffin went to the mainland in 1968 and joined Melbourne after starting his career in the
NTFA. He was known for his robust physical approach to the game and played most games at either full-forward or fullback. He topped Melbourne's goalkicking in 1976 with 47 goals. When he left the club after the 1979 season he became coach of
Dandenong
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. He is an inductee (No. 153) of the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame.
He was also a
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 str ...
er. In the 1967–68 season he played a
first-class match for
Tasmania
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against
the touring Indian team, making 10 runs and taking two wickets. When he took the wicket of
Ajit Wadekar he became one of the small number of players who have taken a wicket with their first ball in first-class cricket.
[Keith Walmsley, ''Brief Candles'', ACS Publications, Cardiff, 2012, p. 93.]
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
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DemonWiki profile
1949 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
Australian rules footballers from Launceston, Tasmania
Cricketers from Launceston, Tasmania
Dandenong Football Club coaches
Melbourne Football Club players
North Launceston Football Club players
Tasmania cricketers
Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame inductees
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