Leyland Sanders, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian rules footballer and cricketer
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Place of Birth: Sandgate, Queensland, Australia
About Leyland Sanders
- Leyland Arthur "Ley" Sanders (17 October 1927 – 3 January 2005) was an Australian sportsman who represented Queensland in both Australian rules football and Sheffield Shield cricket. Sanders had a quick rise in Queensland football, becoming a regular interstate player after his first representative match in 1946.
- Although mainly a backman, Sanders was often used with success as a forward.
- He was club captain of Queensland Australian National Football League (QANFL) club Yeronga and then of Coorparoo-Yeronga, a merged outfit which competed in the 1953 and 1954 seasons.
- He won The Courier-Mail Best and Fairest Cup in 1954.He started his cricket career as a wicket-keeper and had been a promising junior cricketer, captaining the Queensland Colts in 1949 and 1950.
- With Queenslander Don Tallon keeping wicket for Australia and future Test player Wally Grout the new state gloveman, Sanders was at best the third choice wicket-keeper for Queensland.
- As a result, he gave up the glovework and tried to get state selection as a specialist batsman.It was as an opening batsman that Sanders was most often used by Queensland.
- He made his first-class cricket debut in the 1950/51 Shield season and was never able to become a regular fixture in the side, instead he was used more as a reserve batsman for Queensland, who filled a spot when a player was injured.
- His best effort with the bat came in the 1951/52 season, against Victoria, when he opened the batting and made 49.
- He missed out on his half century when he edged a ball from John Cordner to the keeper.
- After an absence of two years, Sanders played his 10th and final first-class match when he was called up as a middle order batsman for a Shield fixture against New South Wales.
- He suffered the indignity of scoring a pair and his dismissal in the second innings put debutant spinner Jack Treanor on a hat-trick, which he completed with the wicket of Peter Burge.
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