Harry Graham (cricketer)

Harry Graham

Personal information
Born	(1870-11-22)22 November 1870 Melbourne, Australia
Died	Seacliff, New Zealand
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Legbreak
International information
National side	Australian
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class Matches 6 114 Runs scored 301 5054 Batting average 30.10 26.32 100s/50s 2/0 7/24 Top score 107 124 Balls bowled 0 298 Wickets 0 6 Bowling average – 43.00 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 Best bowling – 4/39 Catches/stumpings 3/0 85/0
Source: [1]

Graham 1st left (front row) pictured with the 1893 Australia national cricket team

Harry Graham (22 November 1870 – 7 February 1911) was an Australian cricket player. A right-handed batsman, he played six Tests for Australia and also played cricket in New Zealand.

A native of Melbourne, Graham scored a century on debut in 1893 at Lord's, and scored 107 in his first Test on home soil, in Sydney. Graham was also a leading Australian rules footballer, playing for Melbourne Football Club, firstly in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), where he was runner-up in the goal kicking in 1892 with 42 goals, before making a comeback in 1900 when he played two games with Melbourne in the new Victorian Football League (VFL).

Eleven weeks past his 40th birthday, Harry Graham died in Seacliff, a small village in the Otago region of New Zealand's South Island.

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Harry Graham

See also

• List of Victoria first-class cricketers

Sources

• Atkinson, G. (1982) Everything you ever wanted to know about Australian rules football but couldn't be bothered asking, The Five Mile Press: Melbourne. ISBN 0 86788 009 0.
• Player profile: Harry Graham from CricketArchive
• Player profile: Harry Graham from ESPNcricinfo
• Harry Graham's statistics from AFL Tables
• Brydon Coverdale, "Australia's Winter Allrounders: XI Test Cricketers who played Australian Rules football at the highest level", Cricinfo, 28 May 2007