Quintin McMillan
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| Full name | Quintin McMillan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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23 June 1904 Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa |
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| Died | 3 July 1948 (aged 44) Randfontein, Transvaal, South Africa |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm leg-break and googly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 130) | 29 June 1929 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 7 March 1932 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1928/29–1929/30 | Transvaal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 4 March 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quintin McMillan (23 June 1904 – 3 July 1948 in Randfontein, Transvaal) was a South African cricketer who played in 13 Tests from 1929 to 1931–32.
Born in Germiston, Transvaal, McMillan was a right-handed middle- or lower-order batsman and a right-arm leg-break and googly bowler. He had a curious first-class cricket career in that only nine of his 50 first-class matches were played in his native South Africa and five of those were Test matches; there were 25 games on the 1929 tour to England and 16 on the tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1931–32. He started with three matches for Transvaal cricket team in the series of games around Christmas that took the place of the Currie Cup in the 1928–29 season, and was immediately successful. In his first game, he made 61 against Eastern Province and followed that with bowling figures of three for 24 and six for 48 in an innings victory inside two days. He followed that in the very next match with an innings of 185 not out, including a stand of 265 for the fourth wicket with Jock Cameron, against Orange Free State. The innings proved to be the highest of his first-class career and his only century.
On the 1929 South African cricket tour to England, McMillan took more first-class wickets, 91, than any other bowler and he also made 749 first-class runs, mostly batting in the lower-order. Yet he was largely overlooked for the Test matches, playing only in the second game of the five-match series, when Cyril Vincent was injured, and in the last game when the series was already lost. In early matches, he took five wickets for 36 in Glamorgan's second innings, but was overshadowed by Vincent's match figures of 11 for 89. And against Cambridge University he took five for 45.
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