Bill Calcraft (born 22 May 1960) is a former Australian

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player. He is Wallaby #648. Calcraft, born in

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, is a nephew of Wallaby Bill Gunther and attended Scots College, after which he came through the Manly colts to feature in the club's 1983

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-winning first-grade team. He played exactly 100 first grade matches for Sydney first division rugby club Manly DRFC. A flanker, Calcraft captained the New South Wales tour of New Zealand 1984 (he is Waratah #1244) and was selected for both Wallaby tours that year. This included the Grand Slam tour of

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, where he played in 10 tour matches and was the captain against

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. His Test debut came the following year against

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and he was capped a further two times in 1986. His third and final tour for the Wallabies was with the 1986 Bledisloe Cup winning Wallaby tour to New Zealand. He also represented Australia at the 1986

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. He played 21 matches for the Wallabies on tours to Fiji, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland. He started in 3 tests and captained to Wallabies on a number of tour matches. Calcraft then studied at

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where he won two rugby blues against Cambridge, captained the OURFC and also played for the

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during his time in England. Bill Calcraft is also a former Investment Banker with UBS, and expert in renewable energy investment as Managing Director with Allianz Private equity and an experienced Board Director in UK, Europe and Australia.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Calcraft, Bill 1959 births Living people Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players Rugby union players from Sydney Rugby union flankers People educated at Scots College (Sydney) Oxford University RFC players Barbarian F.C. players Manly RUFC players New South Wales rugby union team players 20th-century Australian sportsmen

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