Tom Veivers
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| Bowling style | Right-arm offbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Ashgrove |
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In office 22 October 1983 – 1 November 1986 |
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| Preceded by | John Greenwood |
| Succeeded by | Alan Sherlock |
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Thomas Robert Veivers 6 April 1937 Beenleigh, Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Robyn Stutterd (m.1960) |
| Relations | Mick Veivers (cousin), Greg Veivers (cousin) |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Thomas Robert Veivers (born 6 April 1937 in Beenleigh, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer and politician who played in 21 Tests from 1963 to 1967. He was an all-rounder who bowled right arm off-spin bowler and batted left-handed. He later had a brief political career, holding the seat of Ashgrove in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1983 to 1986 for the Australian Labor Party. He was Commissioner-General of the Australian Pavilion at World Expo 88 in Brisbane in 1988. He was Chairman of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research Trust for ten years from 1991 to 2000 and appointed a Fellow of the Institute in 2000.
Educated at Downlands College, in Toowoomba in southeastern Queensland, Veivers attended the University of Queensland, whom he represented in club cricket. He was made the captain of the Queensland Colts and scored 126 against the New South Wales Colts in 1958/59. He made his first-class debut in same season against the touring English cricket team and made his Sheffield Shield that season also. He played as a middle order batsman and off-spinner, but did not command a regular spot in the Sheffield Shield team until the following season. He was selected for his first Australian squad in 1962, playing in an Australian XI against the visiting English team, in which he was hit for two sixes by Ted Dexter in his opening over. John Woodcock of The Times wrote "I doubt if it is possible to hit a cricket ball any harder than Dexter did today. Melbourne is a huge ground and no one who hits a six here is likely to forget it. Against Veivers, an off-spinner, Dexter twice cleared the sight screen, once by a good 20 yards." He was then selected for the Test team the following season to make his debut against South Africa in the First Test in Brisbane, in which he scored 14 batting at No. 8 and took 1/48. He was omitted for the third and fourth Tests, but managed to defy the South Africans with stubborn batting in the fifth Test in Sydney, salvaging a draw. He toured England in 1964, playing all Tests and scoring two half centuries and three three-wicket hauls. He followed this with two more half centuries and a career best of 4/68 on the tour to India.
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