Zillmere Eagles Australian Football Club Players - Aub Carrigan, Brett Backwell, Danny Dickfos, Marcus Allan, Robert Copeland (Paperback)

Chapters: Aub Carrigan, Brett Backwell, Danny Dickfos, Marcus Allan, Robert Copeland, Brendan Whitecross, Wayne Brittain, Jamie Charman, Rhys Magin, Mitchell Hahn, Josh Drummond, Cheynee Stiller, Daniel Dzufer, Sam Reid, Ben Warren, Frank Dunell, Dick Parton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aubrey Herbert Carrigan (born August 26, 1917 in Zillmere) is a former Australian first-class cricketer who played with Queensland in the Sheffield Shield. Carrigan, a middle order batsman and part time medium pace bowler, made his first-class debut in the 1945/46 season but had to wait until the following summer to make his first Sheffield Shield appearance as the competition had been in recess due to the war. It wasn't until his 20th first-class match that he made a century, an innings of 166 against South Australia in Brisbane, although he had previously amassed a pair of 90s. His bowling was used to good effect on occasions and he claimed 14 wickets at 30.92 in 1948/49. During his career he dismissed batsman to the calibre of Neil Harvey and Arthur Morris. After filling in for two matches in 1950/51, Carrigan was Queensland's captain for the entire 1951/52 Sheffield Shield season, where they finished equal second on the points table. He also had the distinction of captaining his state to a first-class win over the touring West Indians, who had won their last two Test series, in England in India respectively. They played a four day match, as a warm up for the 1st Test at the Brisbane Cricket Ground later in the week. A six wicket haul to Colin McCool restricted the tourists to just 198 in their first innings and Queensland, in reply, would amass 455 runs. Carrigan had come to the crease at 2-184 and went on to score 169 of the remaining 271 runs, before...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2416245