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Keen on cricket and real tennis, it's been speculated that he died from either a pulmonary embolism or a burst abscess caused by being hit with a ball [3] 20 March 1751: London: James Balchen "Killed by a cricket ball" [4] buried 14 June 1764 Godalming, Surrey: George Summers: Struck on the head by a ball [5] 29 June 1870: Nottingham: John ...
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Australia's Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to New Zealand's Brian McKechnie while observed by keeper Rod Marsh and non-striker Bruce Edgar. The underarm bowling incident of 1981 is a sporting controversy that took place on 1 February 1981, when Australia played New Zealand in a One Day International cricket match, the third in the best-of-five final of the 1980–81 World Series Cup, at the ...
Killed by a mob. [12] 17 April 2000: First to captain Colts Cricket Club at FC level: 13 South Africa: Francois Weideman: Shot during a robbery. [13] 4 June 2001: 14 United States: Nezam Hafiz: Worked at the World Trade Center, New York during 9/11. [14] 11 September 2001: First-class player for Guyana and later the US. 15 New Zealand: Mark Parker
David William Hookes (3 May 1955 – 19 January 2004) was an Australian cricket player and coach. He played for the Australia national cricket team and domestic cricket for South Australia, later coaching Victoria. An aggressive left-handed batsman, Hookes usually batted in the middle order.
As of January 2023, the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame comprises 61 members. [1] [3] All twelve members of the Australian Cricket Board Team of the Century are included, six of them amongst the inaugural members. [4] The vast majority are men; Belinda Clark was the first woman admitted to the hall when she was inducted in 2014 (three years ...
Australia 278-8 (92), Nathan Lyon 16, Pat Cummins 40, Stuart Broad 3-64 (21), target 281. 19:19, Mike Jones. Pat Cummins dabs the ball into the legside and scrambles through for one.
Mackay died early in 1982 but, as Jack Pollard wrote in his definitive 'Australian Cricket, the Game and the Players', "while cricket is played in Australia, he will be fondly remembered". He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to cricket in 1962.