Vic Richardson
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| Full name | Victor York Richardson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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7 September 1894 Parkside, South Australia, Australia |
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| Died | 30 October 1969 (aged 75) Fullarton, South Australia, Australia |
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| Nickname | The Guardsman, Yorker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-hand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium pace | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Specialist batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 119) | 19 December 1927 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 3 March 1936 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1918–1938 | South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Victor York Richardson OBE (7 September 1894 – 30 October 1969) was a leading Australian sportsman of the 1920s and 1930s, captaining the Australian cricket team and the South Australian Australian rules football team, representing Australia in baseball and South Australia in golf, winning the South Australian state tennis title and a leading local player in lacrosse, basketball and swimming.
Richardson also has the distinction of winning the South Australian National Football League's highest individual honor, the Magarey Medal, while Captain-coach of Sturt in 1920.
Richardson is most famous for his contribution to cricket, representing Australia in 19 Test matches between 1924 and 1936, including five as captain in the 1935/36 tour of South Africa.
A talented right-handed batsman and rated the best fielder in the world, Richardson made his first-class debut for South Australia in the 1918/19 season. In a career that lasted twenty years (and broken by World War II) he played 184 matches for Australia and South Australia, scoring 10,724 runs, including 27 centuries and averaged 37.63 runs per inning. As a measure of his fielding capabilities, he took 211 catches (at an average of 1.15 catches per match) and even completed four stumpings as a stand-in wicketkeeper.
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