Mark Ray
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Full name | Mark Ray | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2 October 1952|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1981–1982 | New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1982–1986 | Tasmania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: cricinfo.com, 17 March 2008 |
Mark Ray (born 2 October 1952 in Surry Hills, New South Wales) is a former Australian first-class cricket player.
Cricket career
Mark Ray played for
A left-handed opening
While playing for Tasmania, he worked as a photographer for the Examiner newspaper in Launceston. After he retired from first-class cricket, he became a cricket journalist and author, working for many years for The Age in Melbourne and The Sydney Morning Herald. He also published two books of black and white documentary photographs depicting the world of international cricket outside the field of play. In the 1990s, the Australian Cricket Society rated one of those books, "Cricket Masala", among the 50 best Australian cricket books ever published. Ray's photography can be seen at markrayphotos.com.
Books
- Geoff Lawson's Diary of the Ashes: As Told to Mark Ray 1990
- The Ashes: England in Australia 1990-91 (with Alan Lee) 1991
- Cricket: The Game Behind the Game 1994
- Border & Beyond 1995
- Shane Warne: My Own Story: As Told to Mark Ray (with Shane Warne) 1997
- Cricket Masala 2002
- Long Shadows: 100 Years of Australian Cricket 2006 (editor)
See also
References
- ^ The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 441.
- ^ "Tasmania v Western Australia 1983-84". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- ^ "New South Wales v Tasmania 1985-86". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
External links
- Mark Ray at ESPNcricinfo
- Mark Ray at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- "Only in Tassie" by Mark Ray