Charlie Finlason

Charlie Finlason
Personal information
Born 19 February 1860
Camberwell, Surrey,
England
Died 31 July 1917 (aged 57)
Surbiton, Surrey,
England
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm off-break
International information
National side
Only Test 12 March 1889 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1890 Transvaal (now Gauteng)
1890–1891 Griqualand 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 "Charlie" 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 newspaperman to Salisbury, Rhodesia (as that city and country were then called) by ox-drawn cart, with near-disastrous but very entertaining results, in his 1893 book A Nobody in Mashonaland.

Other reading

References

  1. "Charlie Finlason". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  2. "Charlie Finlason". cricketarchive.com. 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.
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