Information about Russell Endean

Russell Endean
South Africa (RSA)
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Russell Endean
Batting styleRight-hand bat
Bowling type-
TestsFirst-class
Matches28134
'''Runs scored16307757
Batting average33.9537.83
100s/50s3/815/34
Top score162*247
Balls bowled-102
Wickets-2
Bowling average-36.50
5 wickets in innings--
10 wickets in match--
Best bowling-1/1
Catches/stumpings41/-158/13
Test debut: 16 August, 1951
Last Test: 28 February, 1958
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William Russell Endean (born May 31, 1924, Johannesburg, Transvaal, died June 28, 2003, England) was a South African cricketer who played in twenty eight Tests from 1951 to 1958.

Russell Endean had a part in two highly unusual Test match dismissals: he was the wicket-keeper whom Len Hutton obstructed leading to Hutton's being given out obstructing the field; and Endean himself was given out handled the ball.
South Africa


Test status granted 1889
First Test match v England at Port Elizabeth, March 1889
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batsman in the sport of cricket is, depending on context:
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A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowler divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better.
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Transvaal (lit. beyond the Vaal [pale river]) was one of the British colonies that united to form the Union of South Africa in 1910. After the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 the bulk of the South African Republic became the Transvaal Colony, while the remainder was
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"God and my right"
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each.[1] A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a cricket pitch.
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Full name Sir Leonard Hutton
Born 23 1916(1916-00-)
Fulneck, Pudsey, England
Died 6 1990 (aged 0)
Kingston-upon-Thames, England
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Obstructing the field is a rare method of dismissal in the sport of cricket.

Definition

Law 37 of the Laws of cricket provides that:

"Either batsman is out Obstructing the field if he wilfully obstructs or distracts the opposing side by word or action.
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Handled the ball is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket.

Definition

Law 33 of the Laws of cricket provides that:

"Either batsman is out Handled the ball if he wilfully touches the ball while in play with a hand or hands not holding the bat unless he does
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