Richard Sinclair Brodie (9 September 1813 – 18 January 1872) was a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
-born Australian
cricket
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er who played for
Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
. He was born in
Caithness
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Caithness has a land boundary with the historic county of Sutherland to the west and is otherwise bounded by ...
and died in
Bulla, Victoria
Bulla is a locality and township in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hume local government area. Bulla recorded a population of 668 at the 2021 census.
Bulla is ...
.
Brodie made a single
first-class appearance for the side, during the 1853–54 season, against
Tasmania
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. From the lower order, he scored six runs in the first innings in which he batted, and a single run in the second.
References
External links
Richard Brodieat Cricket Archive
1813 births
1872 deaths
Australian cricketers
Victoria cricketers
Melbourne Cricket Club cricketers
Scottish emigrants to Australia
People from Caithness
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