Allan_Edwards_(Australian_cricketer)

Allan Edwards (Australian cricketer)

Allan Edwards (Australian cricketer)

Australian cricketer (1921–2019)

Allan Robert Edwards (24 December 1921 – 30 May 2019) was an Australian cricketer. He played 45 first-class matches for Western Australia between 1946 and 1957.[1]

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At Christian Brothers' College, Perth, Edwards was a champion schoolboy cricketer, scoring five centuries in consecutive innings in 1940.[2] He served in Borneo during World War II with the British Borneo Civil Affairs Unit, receiving his discharge in 1946.[3]

When Western Australia was admitted to the Sheffield Shield in 1947/48 he opened the team's first innings and scored 105 in the second match against Victoria, adding 190 for the second wicket with George Robinson.[4] He was the first batsman to score a century in each innings of a match for Western Australia, which he did against Queensland in 1950/51.[2]

He served on Western Australia's selection panel from 1960/61 to 1987/88, and was chairman from 1967/68 to 1987/88.[5] Western Australia won the Sheffield Shield 10 times during the 21 seasons of his chairmanship.[6] He returned to the panel for one more season in 2001/02.[5]

Edwards died in Perth in May 2019 aged 97.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "Allan Edwards". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  2. [2]
    The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 156.
  3. [3]
    "Edwards, Allan Robert". World War Two Nominal Roll. Archived from the original on 22 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
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    "Western Australia v Victoria 1947-48". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
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    "Alan Edwards announces retirement decision". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  6. [6]
    Wisden 2003, p. 1451.
  7. [7]
    WACA Pays Tribute To Allan Edwards, Western Australian Cricket Association, 31 May 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
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