Thomas Alfred Freeman (16 April 1923 – 20 June 2003) was a New Zealand

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 striki ...

er. He played seventeen first-class matches for

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between the 1943–44 and 1949–50 seasons. Freeman was born at Balclutha in

in 1923 and educated at

Otago Boys' High School , motto_translation = "The ‘right’ learning builds a heart of oak" , type = State secondary, day and boarding , established = ; years ago , streetaddress= 2 Arthur Street , region = Dunedin , state = Otago , zipcod ...

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. He worked as a teacher. Following his death in 2003 an obituary was published in the 2004 ''New Zealand Cricket Almanack''. Freeman's son,

Barry Freeman Barry Thomas Freeman (born 28 February 1948) is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played eight first-class matches for Otago between 1969 and 1971. Freeman was born at Dunedin in 1948 and educated at Otago Boys' High School in the city. His ...

, also played for Otago.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 53. Cardiff:

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* 1923 births 2003 deaths New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Sportspeople from Balclutha, New Zealand Cricketers from Otago South Island cricketers {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1920s-stub