Ken Eastwood, Date of Birth

    

Ken Eastwood

Australian cricketer

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1935

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Ken Eastwood

  • Kenneth Humphrey Eastwood (born 23 November 1935, Chatswood, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer who played one Test in 1971.
  • A left-handed opening batsman, Ken Eastwood played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1959-60 to 1971-72.
  • In 1969-70, when Victoria won the Sheffield Shield, he was their leading batsman, with 584 runs at an average of 41.71.
  • In the 1970-71 Sheffield Shield, he scored 737 runs at an average of 122.83, with three centuries and a top score of 221.He replaced Bill Lawry in the Test team, although Lawry had been the Test captain since 1968.
  • The Test was the final match of the series against England in 1970–71.
  • Eastwood failed with the bat, scoring five and a duck, but took one wicket, that of Keith Fletcher, with his left-arm unorthodox spin. In a booklet about Eastwood produced by the Australian Cricket Society, it's claimed that although Eastwood played only one Test, he ended up owning two baggy green caps.
  • It seems he was given two caps to try for size, and no one ever asked him to return the unused one.

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