Arthur Coy (17 December 1902 – 15 May 1983) was a South African
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 st ...
er. He played in twenty-four
first-class matches for
Eastern Province from 1934/35 to 1947/48. Coy was also a member of the
South African Cricket Association
Cricket South Africa (CSA) is the governing body for both professional and amateur cricket in South Africa. In 1991, the separate South African Cricket Union and the South African Cricket Board merged to form the United Cricket Board of South Afr ...
during the
D'Oliveira affair
The D'Oliveira affair was a prolonged political and sporting controversy relating to the scheduled 1968–69 tour of South Africa by the England cricket team, who were officially representing the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The point of cont ...
.
See also
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List of Eastern Province representative cricketers
This is a list of all cricketers who have played first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket for Eastern Province cricket team in South Africa. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the intervening seaso ...
References
External links
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1902 births
1983 deaths
South African cricketers
Eastern Province cricketers
People from Folkestone and Hythe District
Cricketers from Kent
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