Colin Alexander (cricketer)
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| Full name | William Colin Alexander | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 September 1907 Gawler, South Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 8 February 1993 (aged 85) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1925/26–1928/29 | South Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricket Archive, 2 May 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Colin Alexander (14 September 1907 – 8 February 1993) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1925 to 1929.
A middle-order batsman, Alexander made his first-class debut for South Australia in the 1925–26 season a few weeks after turning 18. In his second match, against the touring New Zealanders, he scored 130 and 34 not out.[1] In his next match, which was his first in the Sheffield Shield, he scored 133 against Victoria.[2] In the 1926–27 season he scored 55 and 104 against New South Wales,[3] and he was selected to play for The Rest of Australia against an Australian XI at the end of the season.[4]
Alexander scored 328 runs at an average of 32.80 in 1927–28, and was selected in a 13-man squad to tour New Zealand at the end of the season.[5] He played in four of the six first-class matches on the tour, including one of the two against New Zealand, but apart from an innings of 95 against Auckland he was unsuccessful.[6] After a few matches in 1928–29 he played no more first-class cricket. He was only 21 when he played his last match.[7]