Hunter Poon
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Full name | Hunter Robert George Poon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Ballina, New South Wales, Australia | 14 May 1894||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 25 January 1980 Greenslopes, Queensland, Australia | (aged 85)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Right arm leg spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1923 | Queensland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 21 December 1923 Queensland v Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 1923 Queensland v Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 21 September 2008 |
Hunter Robert George Poon (14 May 1894 – 25 January 1980) was an Australian cricketer and the first player of Chinese descent to appear in Australian first-class cricket.[1]
Biography
Hunter Robert George Poon was born near
His career was interrupted by World War I, and Poon enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 5 September 1916, serving as a Lance Corporal with the 15th Battalion in France, where he was injured.[3]
Returning from the war, with shrapnel wounds in his right hand and lower back, Poon continued to star in Toowoomba cricket and was chosen to represent
Although Poon never again played first-class cricket, he did play against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club twice. Representing Toowoomba, Poon played against MCC in December 1924, taking 0/19 and, batting at number four, scoring 11 and 0.[5] In February 1933, during the Bodyline series, Poon represented Queensland Country against MCC in Toowoomba, taking 2/123 and 0/23 and scoring one with the bat. Poon took the Wickets of Herbert Sutcliffe, stumped by future Test wicket keeper Don Tallon, and Gubby Allen.[6]
Poon died in Greenslopes, Brisbane in 1980, aged 85. The second cricketer of Chinese background to play first-class cricket in Australia, Richard Chee Quee, would not make his first-class debut until 1993.[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b Cashman, R., Franks, W. et al. (1997) The A-Z of Australian Cricketers, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
- ^ Original Birth Certificate.
- ^ "World War I Nominal Roll", File 42-077, Commonwealth of Australia, http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/results.asp Archived 13 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 1 March 2008.
- ^ The Evening Post "Chinaman picked for Queensland", 24 December 1923, Wellington, New Zealand.
- ^ Scorecard, Cricket Archive, https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/109/109259.html Archived 25 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 12 March 2008.
- ^ Scorecard, Cricinfo, http://content-www.cricinfo.com/bodyline/engine/match/316042.html Archived 7 July 2012 at archive.today Retrieved 2 March 2008.
- ^ Scorecard, Cricinfo, http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/57/57042.html Archived 16 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 14 March 2008.
External links
- Terry Foenander. "Hunter Robert George Poon". tfoenander.com/. Retrieved 20 October 2008.