Walter Horatio Westbrook (21 November 1827 – 3 January 1897), 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, who played two
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...
matches for
Tasmania
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He has the distinction of having played in the
first ever first-class cricket match in Australia.
Walter Westbrook died on 3 January 1897 in
Launceston,
Tasmania
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at the age of 69.
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1827 births
1897 deaths
Australian cricketers
Tasmania cricketers
Cricketers from Hobart
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