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Charlie Finlason

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Charlie Finlason
Personal information
Born19 February 1860
Camberwell, Surrey, England
Died31 July 1917 (aged 57)
Surbiton, Surrey, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off-break
International information
National side
Only Test (cap 2)12 March 1889 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1890Transvaal (now Gauteng)
1890–1891Griqualand West (or Kimberley)
Career statistics
Competition Test FC
Matches 1 5
Runs scored 6 213
Batting average 3.00 26.62
100s/50s 0/0 1/0
Top score 6 154*
Balls bowled 12 694
Wickets 0 14
Bowling average n/a 20.50
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 0/7 4/37
Catches/stumpings 0/– 2/–
Source: CricketArchive, 27 December 2014

Charles Edward Finlason (19 February 1860 – 31 July 1917) played a single match of Test cricket for the South African national side, against England in March 1889.

Finlason was born in Camberwell, London, and died in Surbiton, London. He played first-class cricket in South Africa for Griqualand West (also known as Kimberley at the time) and Transvaal between 1888 and 1891. In 1889, he played a single Test match for South Africa against England, scoring six runs across two innings and failing to take a wicket.[1][2]

In April 1891, Finlason recorded his single first-class century, for Griqualand West against the Transvaal in the second season of the Currie Cup. The match, at the Wanderers ground in Johannesburg, was designated "timeless", and finished with a Griqualand West victory after six days of play spread over a week. Finlason scored 154 not out in Griqualand West's second innings. He featured in a 95-run tenth-wicket partnership with Alfred Cooper, who finished with 41 runs.[3] As of December 2014, this remains a record for the last wicket for Griqualand West.[4]

Later, Finlason described an expedition as a newspaperman to Salisbury, Rhodesia by ox-drawn cart in his 1893 book A Nobody in Mashonaland.

Other reading

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  • Finlayson [sic], C. E. (1893). A Nobody in Mashonaland. Unknown publisher. Reprinted in 1970 as Rhodesiana Reprint Library: First (Gold) Series, Volume 9 ISBN 0-86920-016-X (standard) and ISBN 0-86920-017-8 (de luxe).
  • Frindall, Bill, ed. (1979). The Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Volume 1 1877–1977. London: MacDonald & Jane's. ISBN 978-0354085359.
  • Bailey, Philip; Thorn, Philip; Wynne-Thomas, Peter (1993). Who's Who of Cricketers. London: Hamlyn. ISBN 978-0600577294. 2nd edition.
  • Martin-Jenkins, Christopher (1996). World Cricketers: A Biographical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192100054.

References

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  1. ^ "Charlie Finlason". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  2. ^ "Charlie Finlason". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  3. ^ Transvaal v Kimberley, Currie Cup 1890/91 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  4. ^ Highest partnership for each wicket for Griqualand West – CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.