Threlfall Werge Talbot Baines (20 June 1908 – 8 May 1994) was a South African

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

er active from 1925 to 1937 who played for

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, Eastern Province and

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. He was born in

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and died in

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. He appeared in 20 first-class matches.Threlfall Baines at CricketArchive
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Michael Baines Michael Fitzroy Talbot Baines (3 September 1898 – 9 March 1990) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Graduating from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Baines served in the Royal Artillery during the First World W ...

, was also a first-class cricketer.

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1908 births 1994 deaths Cambridge University cricketers South African cricketers Eastern Province cricketers Gauteng cricketers 20th-century South African sportsmen {{SouthAfrica-cricket-bio-1900s-stub