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The oldest person, and only septuagenarian, to play first-class cricket was Raja Maharaj Singh, aged 72, his sole appearance being for the Bombay Governor's XI against a Commonwealth XI in November 1950. [8]
Gordon played first-class cricket for Transvaal from the 1933–34 season as a right-handed fast bowler and a tail-end right-handed batsman. He made his Test debut against England in December 1938, playing every Test of the five-match series. In the first Test, he took his best Test match figures of 7–162, including 5–103 in the first ...
American football player and coach [58] John Dellert: 1884–1985: 100: American gymnast [59] Shan Deniston: 1919–2020: 101: American athlete and sports coach [60] D. B. Deodhar: 1892–1993: 101: Indian cricket player and Sanskritist [61] Dorothy Dermody: 1909–2012: 102: Irish fencer [62] Fred I. Dickerson: 1911–2017: 106: American ...
Francis Alexander MacKinnon, The 35th MacKinnon of MacKinnon DL (9 April 1848 – 27 February 1947) was the longest-lived Test cricketer until being surpassed by Eric Tindill of New Zealand on 8 November 2009. MacKinnon, who was 98 years, 324 days old when he died, was the oldest-ever first-class cricketer at that time. [1]
He played Test cricket until the age of 50, and first-class cricket until the age of 53. He is the fourth-oldest Test debutant and the second-oldest Test player. Unsurprisingly, because of his age, his Test career spanned only 14 matches, during which he took 74 wickets at an average of 17.97. In that time, though he achieved some outstanding ...
Gaekwad played his early cricket for Bombay University and the Maharaja Sayaji University in Baroda. He made his Test debut in the first Test of 1952 tour of England, in Leeds. He opened the innings for India despite never having done so before the tour. He was one among four victims dismissed for no score in the second innings of the Test. [4]
C. B. Fry represented England at both cricket and football, and also held the world record for the long jump. This is a list of sportspeople who have played both first-class cricket and top level football in England. The list includes thirteen sportspeople who are dual internationals, having represented England's national team at both sports.
Laurence John Nash (2 May 1910 – 24 July 1986) was a Test cricketer and Australian rules footballer.An inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame, Nash was a member of South Melbourne's 1933 premiership team, captained South Melbourne in 1937 and was the team's leading goal kicker in 1937 and 1945.