Mossie Guttormsen (29 July 1916 – 8 August 1998) was an Australian
cricket
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er. He played in four
first-class matches for
Queensland
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between 1936 and 1939.
Guttormsen was playing for
Easts in
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 expa ...
in one of their reserve sides as early as 1930, and he participated in a school sports tournament in 1931 captaining a side and receiving a prize for achieving the best batting average.
Guttormsen achieved success in October 1938 when he took four catches while conceding no byes and also scored 66 runs in a match for Easts, and he scored 68 for the club in November. As of January 1939 he had begun opening the batting for Easts and scored a 97 early that month, although he took 115 minutes to reach fifty. In November 1939 he was named in the Queensland First-class side as a reserve keeper.
See also
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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 ...
References
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1916 births
1998 deaths
Australian cricketers
Queensland cricketers
Cricketers from Brisbane
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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