Harry Alexander (cricketer)
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| Full name | Harry Houston Alexander | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 June 1905 Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 April 1993 (aged 87) East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Bull | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test (cap 149) | 23 February 1933 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1928/29–1933/34 | Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harry Houston "Bull" Alexander (9 June 1905 – 15 April 1993) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test match, the fifth of the 1932-33 "bodyline series" against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground, as a fast, right-arm opening bowler.[1]
He played for Victoria in 27 first-class matches between 1929 and 1933, and toured India with the unofficial Australian team in 1935-36.
His best first-class figures were 7 for 95 for Victoria against New South Wales in the 1932-33 Sheffield Shield.[2]
He also played 89 matches for Essendon and 4 matches for North Melbourne in Melbourne local competition cricket between 1924–25 and 1936–37.[3]
During the Second World War Alexander served as a warrant officer in the Australian Army from 1940 to 1945.[4] He served in Malta, the Middle East and the Pacific.[5]
Alexander later moved to Euroa in central Victoria, where he worked as a wool classer and became a municipal councillor.[5]
He oversaw the reconstruction of the local Euroa Memorial Oval to the precise dimensions of the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
He was partly responsible for organising a number of touring teams to play at the oval, including MCC touring teams in 1950/51 and 1965/66.[5]
He was also a past president of the Euroa Football Club. Social rooms at the Memorial Oval are named in his honour and he is listed in the Alexandra, Euroa & District Cricket Association Hall of Fame.
References
[edit]- ^ "Harry Alexander". Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ "New South Wales v Victoria 1932-33". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ "Melbourne Premier Cricket - Player Statistics". Victorian Premier Cricket. Cricket Victoria. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
- ^ "Alexander, Harry Houston". ww2roll.gov.au. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ a b c David Frith, Bodyline Autopsy, ABC Books, Sydney, 2002, p. 425–26.