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Tom Ball (cricketer)
Tom Ball (3 December 1921 – 13 January 2002) was an Australian cricketer. He played in three first-class matches for Queensland in 1947. Ball began his cricket career in Cairns. In 1945 he played in the Queensland country cricket carnival and performed extremely well as a fast bowler and in October 1946 he began playing for the Colts in Brisbane Grade Cricket while staying in Brisbane for that seasons country cricket carnival. In December 1946 he was selected in a Queensland Country side which played the visiting English Test team in Gympie and he took 5 for 69. In January 1947 Ball was described as the second fastest bowler in Queensland after John Ellis and that month he was selected in the state team after Ellis declined selection with the media speculating he may be able to succeed Ellis as Queensland' main fast bowler. After his selection it was reported he was also able to score runs with open-shouldered strokes and he was compared to Ray Lindwall Raymond Ru ...
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Atherton, Queensland
Atherton is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Atherton had a population of 7,724 people. Geography Atherton is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. Atherton is joined by the Gillies Highway to Yungaburra, the Kennedy Highway north to Mareeba, Queensland, Mareeba and south to Ravenshoe and Mount Garnet, the Malanda–Atherton Road to Malanda, Queensland, Malanda and the Atherton–Herberton Road to Herberton. History ''Yidiny language, Yidinji'' (also known as ''Yidinj'', ''Yidiny'', and ''Idindji'') is an Australian Aboriginal languages, Australian Aboriginal language. Its traditional language region is within the local government areas of Cairns Region and Tablelands Region, in such localities as Cairns, Gordonvale, Queensland, Gordonvale, and the Mulgrave River, and the southern part of the Atherton Tableland including Atherton and Kairi, Queensland, Kairi. ...
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Cricket
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cricket), bails (small sticks) balanced on three stump (cricket), stumps. Two players from the Batting (cricket), batting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in front of either wicket holding Cricket bat, bats, while one player from the Fielding (cricket), fielding team, the bowler, Bowling (cricket), bowls the Cricket ball, ball toward the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball with the bat and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one Run (cricket), run for each of these swaps. Runs are also scored when the ball reaches the Boundary (cricket), boundary of the field or when the ball is bowled Illegal delivery (cricket), illegally. The fielding tea ...
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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 of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none at all. The etymology of "first-class cricket" is unknown, but the term was used loosely before it acquired official status in 1895, following a meeting of leading English clubs. At a meeting of the International Cricket Council, Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1947, it was formally defined on a global basis. A significant omission of the ICC ruling was any attempt to define first-class cricket retrospectively. That has left historians and statisticians with the problem of how to categorise earlier matches, especially those played in ...
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Queensland Cricket Team
The Queensland men's cricket team or the Queensland Bulls is the representative cricket side in Australia's domestic cricket tournaments for the Australian state of Queensland: *Sheffield Shield: four-day matches with first class cricket, first-class status, since the 1926/27 season *Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament, Marsh One-Day Cup: a Limited overs cricket, one-day (fifty over per side) tournament with List A cricket, List-A status, since its inception in 1969/70 *KFC Twenty20 Big Bash: a Twenty20, twenty overs per side tournament from 2005/06 to 2010/11. History 1824 to 1926/27 The first European settlement in Queensland was a penal colony established at Redcliffe, Queensland, Redcliffe in 1824, which moved to Brisbane the following year. Free settlers first arrived in 1842. The earliest evidence of cricket being played in Queensland is in 1857, two years prior to separation from New South Wales and History of Queensland#Colony of Queensland, statehood. ...
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Brisbane Grade Cricket
Queensland Premier Cricket is the top cricket competition played in Queensland, Australia. The competition was founded under the name Brisbane Electoral Cricket in 1897 and eventually came to be known as Brisbane Grade Cricket, but has since expanded to take in teams from Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, and Ipswich. As of the 2019/20 season there were six grades in the Two-Day Bulls Masters competition. In addition to the two-day Grade competition there is also a One-Day competition for the John McKnoulty Cup and a T20 competition for the Tom Veivers Trophy. There is also a women's One-Day competition for the Katherine Raymont Shield contested by eight sides as of the 2020/21 season, and a women's T20 competition under Queensland Premier Cricket. Easts-Redlands District Cricket Club, Easts-Redlands are the reigning First Grade premiers, and Gold Coast District Cricket Club, Gold Coast are the reigning premiers in both the One Day and T20 competitions. History Early years: 1897 - 19 ...
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1946–47 Ashes Series
The 1946–47 Ashes series consisted of five cricket Test cricket, Test matches, each of six days with five hours play each day and Over (cricket), eight ball overs. Unlike pre-war Tests in Australia, matches were not Timeless Test, timeless and played to a finish. It formed part of the MCC tour of Australia in 1946–47 and England played its matches outside the Tests in the name of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The English cricket team in Australia in 1946-47, England team was led by the veteran Wally Hammond and his vice-captain Norman Yardley with the strong batting line up of Len Hutton, Cyril Washbrook, Bill Edrich, Denis Compton and Joe Hardstaff junior, Joe Hardstaff, but a weak bowling attack that relied on pre-war bowlers like the 37-year-old Bill Voce of Bodyline fame and the mercurial leg-spinner Doug Wright (cricketer), Doug Wright. The two successes of the tour were the newly capped Alec Bedser, who would carry the England bowling attack until 1955, and Godfrey Evans wh ...
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John Ellis (Queensland Cricketer)
John Ellis (10 June 1914 – 17 October 1994) was an Australian cricketer. He played in 25 first-class matches for Queensland between 1938 and 1948. See also * 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 ... References External links * 1914 births 1994 deaths Australian cricketers Queensland cricketers Cricketers from Brisbane 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-cricket-bio-1910s-stub ...
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Ray Lindwall
Raymond Russell Lindwall (3 October 1921 – 23 June 1996) was an Australian cricketer who represented Australia in 61 Tests from 1946 to 1960. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. He also played top-flight rugby league football with St. George, appearing in two grand finals for the club before retiring to fully concentrate on Test cricket. A right-arm fast bowler of express pace, Lindwall was widely regarded as the greatest pace bowler of his era and one of the finest of all time. He modelled his action on the great England fast bowler Harold Larwood. Together with Keith Miller, Lindwall formed a new-ball pairing regarded as one of the greatest to have played cricket. Lindwall was known for his classical style, with a smooth and rhythmic run-up and textbook side-on bowling action, from which he generated his trademark outswinger which moved away late at high pace. Lindwall mixed his outswinger with a searing yorker, subtle changes of ...
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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, but who have not so far appeared in any first-class matches for the team. List Statistics included are only for matches played for Queensland Players who hold a state contract for the 2019–21 season have their names in bold Players who have played international cricket are highlighted in blue Appendix List A/T20 players The following cricketers have played in List A and/or Twenty20 matches for Queensland, but have not appeared in first-class cricket for the team: * Corey Barsby (2010–11) : C. R. Barsby * Phillip Bawden (1973–74) : P. A. Bawden * Michael Buchanan (2005–06 to 2007–08) : M. J. Buchanan * Daniel Coleborn (1991–92) : D. P. Coleborn * Andrew Gode (2018–19) : A. J. Gode * Errol Harris (1991–92) : E. J ...
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1921 Births
Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' breaks in two and sinks off Villa Garcia, Mexico, with the loss of 244 of the 300 people on board. * January 16 – The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa. * January 17 – The first recorded public performance of the illusion of "sawing a woman in half" is given by English stage magician P. T. Selbit at the Finsbury Park Empire variety theatre in London. * January 20 – British K-class submarine HMS K5, HMS ''K5'' sinks in the English Channel; all 57 on board are lost. * January 21 – The full-length Silent film, silent comedy drama film ''The Kid (1921 film), The Kid'', written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his ...
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2002 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ...
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Australian Cricketers
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