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Lawrence Anderson "Fish" Markham (12 September 1924 – 5 August 2000) was a South African
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er who played in one
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in 1949.


Biography

Markham was a right-arm leg-break bowler and a right-handed lower-order batsman. His single Test was the fourth match of the 1948–49 England tour series, and he was the third spin bowler alongside Tufty Mann and
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. He scored 20 in his single innings and took just one wicket in the game and was dropped for the next match. He played
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for
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from 1946 to 1950. His best figures were 7 for 106 against
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in the 1947–48
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. His highest score was 134, batting at number nine against
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a few weeks later, when he went to the wicket at 166 for 7 and added 174 for the eighth wicket with
Ossie Dawson Oswald Charles Dawson (1 September 1919 – 22 December 2008) was a South African cricketer who played in 9 Test matches, all against England, in the 1947 and 1948–49 series. Dawson was an all-rounder, an aggressive middle-order batsman and ...
; he then took three wickets in each innings to give Natal an innings' victory. He is the only Test cricketer to be born in
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.


See also

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