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Roy Minnett

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Roy Minnett
Minnett in 1912
Personal information
Full name
Roy Baldwin Minnett
Born(1886-06-13)13 June 1886[1]
St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
Died21 October 1955(1955-10-21) (aged 69)
Manly, New South Wales, Australia
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 98)15 December 1911 v England
Last Test19 August 1912 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1906–07 to 1914–15New South Wales
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 9 54
Runs scored 391 2142
Batting average 26.06 28.94
100s/50s 0/3 2/12
Top score 90 216*
Balls bowled 589 4155
Wickets 11 86
Bowling average 26.36 25.02
5 wickets in innings 0 3
10 wickets in match 0 1
Best bowling 4/34 8/50
Catches/stumpings 0/0 17/0

Roy Baldwin Minnett (13 June 1886 – 21 October 1955) was an Australian cricketer who played in nine Test matches from December 1911 to August 1912.[2] He became a medical practitioner.

Life and career

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Minnett was born in Sydney and attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School.[3] He first played first-class cricket for New South Wales while he was studying medicine at Sydney University.[4] A brilliant, sometimes impetuous batsman, fast-medium bowler and excellent fieldsman, he scored 151 in 150 minutes against Tasmania in January 1911.[3] A year later he scored 216 not out in 197 minutes against Victoria at the Sydney Cricket Ground, adding 169 for the tenth wicket in 83 minutes with Cecil McKew.[4][5] On his Test debut a few weeks earlier, also at the SCG, he had scored 90 in 111 minutes, adding 109 for the sixth wicket with Victor Trumper.[6] He top-scored in the first innings of both the Fourth and Fifth Tests of the series, with 56 and 61 respectively.[3]

Minnett toured England with the Australian team in 1912, but the damp conditions did not suit his play.[4] He played in four of the six Tests, his best contribution being 4 for 34 in England's first innings at The Oval.[7] It was his last Test match. He played a few more matches for New South Wales after the tour. In his last match, against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in December 1914, he opened the bowling and took 8 for 50 off 24.2 overs, bowling unchanged through the innings.[8] In January 1914 he toured Ceylon with a New South Wales team led by the Rev. E. F. Waddy, finishing at the top of the team's batting averages.[9]

After 1914 the demands of his medical practice curtailed Minnett's cricket career.[4] His older brothers, Leslie and Rupert, also played cricket for New South Wales.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, 1814-2011". Ancestry.com.au. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Roy Minnett". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "A Chat about Mr. R. B. Minnett", Cricket, 30 March 1912, pp. 37–38.
  4. ^ a b c d e The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 366–67.
  5. ^ "New South Wales v Victoria 1911-12". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  6. ^ "1st Test, Sydney, Dec 15 – 21 1911, England tour of Australia". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  7. ^ "The Oval, Aug 19 – 22 1912, Triangular Tournament". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Victoria v New South Wales 1914-15". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Waddy's Cricket Team". Daily Herald: 5. 9 February 1914.
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