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Loading ...I can think of a couple of England captains off the top of my head; the immaculate Lord Ted Dexter (born in Milan) and the dreaded Mike Denness (a Scottish saboteur from Lanarkshire).
Test cricketers born in non test-playing nations
By Jonathan Calder last year, mid-December Add your comment below
A recent discovery of mine on Wikipedia is its page of Test cricketers born in non Test playing nations.
The familiar – Freddy Brown born in Peru, Dermot Reeve born in Hong Kong, Geraint Jones born in Papua New Guinea – brush shoulders with some more unexpected discoveries.
George Headley was born in Panama. Archie Jackson, who died tragically young and was thought by some fellow Australians to be a better prospect than Bradman, was born in Scotland.
And there are exotic figures like John Traicos, who played for both South Africa and Zimbabwe yet was born in Egypt, and Ashok Gandotra, who played a couple of tests for India in the 1960s and was born in Brazil.
Freddy Brown, incidentally, insisted in fielding in a duffle coat, with that the result that there was an easy two to him no matter where he was placed.
Jonathan Calder blogs at Liberal England
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3 Responses to “Test cricketers born in non test-playing nations”
December 21st, 2009 at 11.18 pm
December 21st, 2009 at 11.20 pm
…and come to think of it, wasn’t Super Derek Pringle born in Kenya? I do remember his father Donald playing for East Africa in the inaugural World Cup.
December 21st, 2009 at 11.35 pm
Henry Olonga born in Zambia.
Moises Henriques of New South Wales born in Portugal. He may not be a Test cricketer yet, but a lot of people are tipping that to change.
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