Roy Gathorne (21 August 1920 – 17 March 2016) was a South African
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 (cr ...
er. He played in six
first-class matches for
Eastern Province in 1952/53.
The cricket ground at
Michaelhouse
Michaelhouse is a full boarding senior school for boys founded in 1896. It is located in the Balgowan, KwaZulu-Natal, Balgowan valley in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The Spear’s Schools Index 2025 reco ...
, his old school, is named after him.
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
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1920 births
2016 deaths
South African cricketers
Eastern Province cricketers
Cricketers from Durban
Alumni of Michaelhouse
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