Karl Quist

Karl Hugo Quist (18 August 1875 – 31 March 1957) was an Australian sportsman who played interstate cricket for New South Wales, South Australia, and Western Australia, and later became a noted South Australian sporting coach and personality.

Born in Milsons Point, a suburb of Sydney, to Danish emigrant parents, Quist played Sydney grade cricket for both the North Sydney and Sydney Cricket Clubs, captaining the latter side for a period of time. He made his first-class debut for New South Wales during the 1899–1900 season, in a match against Tasmania at the Tasmanian Cricket Association Ground in Hobart, and scored 25 and 3* in what was to be his only match for New South Wales.

Quist left for Fremantle, Western Australia, in April 1905, to take up a position with an electrical engineering firm. In WACA district cricket, he took up playing for the Fremantle District Cricket Club, and was subsequently appointed to the state selection committee for South Australia's tour during the 1905–06 season. Elected captain of the state team, Western Australia won the first match by 103 runs, with Quist thus becoming the first person to captain Western Australia to a win in a first-class match. In the second match, which was drawn, he scored 56 runs in Western Australia's second innings, his only first-class half-century and highest first-class score.