Alan Connolly

Personal information

Full name

Alan Norman Connolly

Born

29 June 1939
Skipton, Victoria, Australia

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 was a fast bowler early in his career, 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 headed Australia's bowling figures for the series, with 23 wickets at 21.34. He played the 1969 and 1970 seasons for Middlesex.

On the tour of South Africa in 1969-70 he took 20 wickets at 26.10, in a series in which Australia lost all four Tests, and his four fellow pace bowlers took only 17 wickets between them at a combined average of 61.70.

He was recalled for his last Test match in the Fourth Test at Sydney in the 1970-71 Ashes series, but was dropped after taking just one wicket in Australia's 299-run loss. He retired from first-class cricket at the end of the season.

References

↑ p59, John Snow, Cricket Rebel, Hamlyn, 1976

External links

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Alan Connolly

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