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Tom Allen (5 September 1912 – 18 March 1954) was an Australian
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 in 43 first-class matches for
Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...
between 1933 and 1941.


Biography

Allen was from the rural town of Greenmount near Toowoomba and he attended Toowoomba Grammar School. He played cricket for Toowoomba, ultimately captaining the Toowoomba XI, and was described as possibly the best opening batsman ever produced by Toowoomba in 1933. In 1933 he was selected for the Queensland State side, and the following year he was named State vice-captain. He briefly captained the State team in 1936 and scored a century against the touring English side during the 1936/37 Ashes, and later served as a Queensland State selector. In his career Allen was a farmer in Cambooya and he died there in 1954. In his personal life he married Noel Vaughan in 1937, and they had three children. His son Ross Allen also played First-class cricket for Queensland.


See also

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List of Queensland first-class cricketers This is a complete list in alphabetical order of cricketers who have played for Queensland in First-Class matches since 1892–93. The Appendix contains names of 18 players who appeared for Queensland teams in List A or Twenty20 cricket matches ...


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Allen, Tom 1912 births 1954 deaths Australian cricketers Queensland cricketers Cricketers from Toowoomba