Alan Connolly
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| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alan Norman Connolly | |||
| Born | 29 June 1939 Skipton, Victoria, Australia |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | Australia | |||
| Test debut | 6 December 1963 v South Africa | |||
| Last Test | 9 January 1971 v England | |||
| Only ODI | 5 January 1971 v England | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1959–1971 | Victoria | |||
| 1969–1970 | Middlesex | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | ODIs | FC | LA |
| Matches | 29 | 1 | 201 | 32 |
| Runs scored | 260 | – | 1,073 | 70 |
| Batting average | 10.40 | – | 8.79 | 7.77 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | – | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| Top score | 37 | – | 40 | 13 |
| Balls bowled | 7,818 | 64 | 43,578 | 1,536 |
| Wickets | 102 | 0 | 676 | 41 |
| Bowling average | 29.22 | – | 26.58 | 21.24 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 4 | 0 | 25 | 1 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Best bowling | 6/47 | 0/62 | 9/67 | 5/22 |
| Catches/stumpings | 17/– | 0/– | 77/– | 9/– |
| Source: Cricket Archive, 20 October 2010 | ||||
Alan Norman Connolly (born 29 June 1939, Skipton, Victoria) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 29 Tests and one ODI from 1963 to 1971. Connolly had been a fast bowler in his youth, but slowed his pace to increase his accuracy and became a reliable support bowler in partnership with Garth McKenzie. He was instrumental in Australia's 159 run victory at Old Trafford in 1968,[1] the only time England lost a match in a sequence of 40 tests between 1966 and 1971. He was recalled for his last Test match in the 1970-71 Ashes series, but was dropped after England's 299 victory in the Fourth Test at Sydney.
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- ^ p59, John Snow, Cricket Rebel, Hamlyn, 1976
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