Stephen Llewellyn Hanson (8 July 1931 – 27 June 1997) was a South African

cricketer 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 ...

who played

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for

Orange Free State The Orange Free State ( nl, Oranje Vrijstaat; af, Oranje-Vrystaat;) was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeat ...

from 1950 to 1959. Hanson was a right-handed opening batsman and off-spin bowler. He captained Orange Free State from 1954–55 to 1956–57. In their only

Currie Cup The Currie Cup is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, played each winter and spring (June to October), featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces. Although it is the premier ...

victory in this period, in January 1956, he scored 22 and 70 (Orange Free State's highest score in the match) and took 3 for 39 in the second innings, including the final wicket, to give his team an 80-run victory over Griqualand West. His best season was 1954–55, when he scored his two first-class centuries. Orange Free State struggled in the "A" Section of the Currie Cup, losing five and drawing one of their six matches, but Hanson led their batting with 472 runs at an average of 39.33. Against Natal at Bloemfontein, he top-scored in each innings with 72 and 134; in the second innings he added 161 for the seventh wicket with the 16-year-old

Peter Carlstein Peter Rudolph Carlstein (born 28 October 1938) is a former South African cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman in eight Test matches from 1958 to 1964. Career Carlstein made his first-class debut at the age of 16 for Orange Free State ...

, who was making his first-class debut.

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