Ray Jordon
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| Full name | Raymond Clarence Jordon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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17 February 1937 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| Died | 13 August 2012 (aged 75) Melbourne, Australia |
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1960–1971 | Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive
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Raymond Clarence "Slug" Jordon (17 February 1937 – 13 August 2012) was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria in the Sheffield Shield and toured with the Australian national cricket team. He was also a successful Australian rules football coach and acted as both reserves and under-19s coach at various clubs in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Universally known as "Slug", his nickname arose as a result of an incident during his National Service at Puckapunyal.
Jordon took a total of 230 dismissals in the Sheffield Shield and 283 for all first-class matches. His tally at both Shield and first-class level remained a Victorian record until surpassed by his replacement Richie Robinson, who himself was later bettered by Darren Berry. In 1970/71 he managed a career best ten dismissals in a match against South Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
His only first-class hundred was an innings of 134, also against South Australia, in the 1963/64 Sheffield Shield. The South Australian bowling attack was led by Gary Sobers and while he ran through Victoria's batting lineup with six second innings wickets, Jordon resisted with a century before falling LBW to Neil Hawke.
The wicket-keeper captained Victoria in five Sheffield Shield matches during his career, three of them in the 1968/69 season.
Jordon came close to playing Test cricket, touring both India and South Africa in 1969/70 as a standby for Brian Taber. Although he appeared in four of Australia's first-class warm up matches in India and six in South Africa, Jordon was not required for any of the Tests.
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