Allan Edwards (Australian cricketer)

Allan Robert Edwards (24 December 1921 – 30 May 2019) was an Australian cricketer. He played 45 first-class matches for Western Australia between 1946 and 1957.[1]

Allan Edwards
Edwards in 1948
Personal information
Full nameAllan Robert Edwards
Born(1921-12-24)24 December 1921
Perth, Western Australia
Died30 May 2019(2019-05-30) (aged 97)
Perth, Western Australia
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1946/47–1956/57Western Australia
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 45
Runs scored 2,370
Batting average 32.46
100s/50s 3/13
Top score 105
Balls bowled 685
Wickets 14
Bowling average 24.71
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 4/54
Catches/stumpings 34/–
Source: Cricinfo, 22 March 2017

At Christian Brothers' College, Perth, Edwards was a champion schoolboy cricketer, scoring five centuries in consecutive innings in 1940.[2] He served in Borneo during World War II with the British Borneo Civil Affairs Unit, receiving his discharge in 1946.[3]

When Western Australia was admitted to the Sheffield Shield in 1947/48 he opened the team's first innings and scored 105 in the second match against Victoria, adding 190 for the second wicket with George Robinson.[4] He was the first batsman to score a century in each innings of a match for Western Australia, which he did against Queensland in 1950/51.[2]

He served on Western Australia's selection panel from 1960/61 to 1987/88, and was chairman from 1967/68 to 1987/88.[5] Western Australia won the Sheffield Shield 10 times during the 21 seasons of his chairmanship.[6] He returned to the panel for one more season in 2001/02.[5]

Edwards died in Perth in May 2019 aged 97.[7]

References
  1. "Allan Edwards". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  2. The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 156.
  3. "Edwards, Allan Robert". World War Two Nominal Roll. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  4. "Western Australia v Victoria 1947-48". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  5. "Alan Edwards announces retirement decision". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  6. Wisden 2003, p. 1451.
  7. WACA Pays Tribute To Allan Edwards, Western Australian Cricket Association, 31 May 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
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