Basil Onyons
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Basil Austin Onyons (14 March 1887 – 31 May 1967) was an Australian
Victoria
.
Onyons was originally an Australian rules footballer and played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1905 and 1908. He kicked 32 goals from his 37 games, with 16 of them coming in the 1906 season which was the most by a Melbourne player that year.
A right-handed batsman who often opened the innings, Onyons made an inauspicious first-class cricket debut, bagging a
He didn't play another first-class match until exactly eight years later when he captained Victoria in a game against
Tasmania at the MCG. Despite batting at number eight down the order he made 128.[2]
In a good 1928/29 Sheffield Shield season, Onyons made 582 runs at 72.75 with four hundreds from four games.[3]
References
- ^ "New South Wales v Victoria 1918/19". CricketArchive.
- ^ "Victoria v Tasmania 1926/27". CricketArchive.
- ^ "Batting and Fielding in Sheffield Shield 1928/29". CricketArchive.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Basil Onyons.
- Basil Onyons at ESPNcricinfo
- Basil Onyons's playing statistics from AFL Tables