Sivert Vause Samuelson (21 November 1883 – 18 November 1958) was a South African

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er who played in one

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in 1910. Samuelson was an off-spin bowler and tail-end right-handed batsman who took five MCC wickets in an innings in his third first-class game and found himself in the Test team for the final match in the 1909–10 series, played at

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. He failed to take a wicket as

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scored 417, with

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making 187. He batted at No 11 in both innings. Samuelson played only one season of

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cricket for

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, in 1910–11, taking 13 wickets in each of two matches and finishing with 41 wickets in the season at an average of less than 14 runs per wicket.

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, ''The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers'', Rigby, Adelaide, 1983, p. 311. But he then played only a couple more games the following season, and his only other first-class game was against MCC more than a decade later in 1922–23.

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