Gordon Rorke
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| Born | 27 June 1938 Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 213) | 30 January 1959 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 19 December 1959 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1957/58–1963/64 | New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 10 September 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gordon Frederick Rorke (born 27 June 1938) is a former Australian cricketer who played in four Test matches in 1959.
Rorke made his Test debut in January 1959 in the Fourth Test of
A six-foot-five-inch (or 1.96 m) "Blond Giant", Rorke was the fastest Australian bowler at the time and was accused of throwing by the English press, but this paled beside his dragging. With his seven-foot stride, if dragging his rear foot a yard over the crease he could be only eighteen yards from the batsman when he finally delivered the ball. At times he seemed impossible to score from.[1][2][3] Fred Trueman was no balled for dragging his foot a couple of inches over the crease and wrote "It was really annoying as this umpire seemed to allow Gordon Rorke to bowl with both his feet over the front line!"[4] One picture showed him with his rear foot past the bowling crease before he had even begun to drag.[2] Colin Cowdrey joked "I was frightened that he might tread on my toes".[5]
Rorke did not play
References
Sources
- Brown, A. (1988) The Pictorial History of Cricket, Bison Books: London. ISBN 9780861244447
- ISBN 9780333451779.
- ISBN 9780330427050.
- ISBN 9780091377908.
- ISBN 9780091661007