Arthur Morris
Arthur Robert Morris was an Australian cricketer who played 46 Test matches between 1946 and 1955. He is best known for his key role in Don Bradman’s Invincibles side, which made an undefeated tour of England in 1948. He was named in the Australian Cricket Board’s Team of the Century in 2000. Morris died in a car crash in 2011, aged 89, and is survived by his wife and two children.
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Arthur Robert Morris MBE was an Australian cricketer who played 46 Test matches between 1946 and 1955. He is best known for his key role in Don Bradman’s Invincibles side, which made an undefeated tour of England in 1948. Morris is regarded as one of Australia’s greatest left-handed batsmen. He was named in the Australian Cricket Board’s Team of the Century in 2000. In 2017, Morris was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. Morris was the son of a schoolteacher who played for Waverley Cricket Club in Sydney as a fast bowler. His father encouraged him to play sport and he showed promise in a variety of ball sports, particularly cricket, rugby and tennis. In his youth, Morris excelled at rugby union as well as cricket, being selected for the state schoolboys’ team in both sports. He became the first player in the world to score two centuries on his first-class debut during the 1940–41 season. His career was interrupted by the Second World War, during which he served in the Australia Army and gained selection in its rugby union team. He later became a trustee of the Sydney Cricket Ground for over twenty years. He died in 2011 at the age of 89, after his first wife became terminally ill with a rare form of lung cancer, and was buried in a private ceremony at the Sydney suburb of St Vincent’s Hospital. His son, Peter, is a former Australian cricket player who played in the 1970s and 1980s.
He also played rugby union for the Sydney St George’s side and was a member of the New South Wales State Rugby Union team in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Morris also played cricket for Sydney University, where he was a first-team all-rounder and first-choice bowler for the university’s second XI. He played his last Test match in 1955, against South Africa at the end of a tour of South Africa in which Australia won the Test series 4–0. He has been described as a “legend” and “one of the greatest cricketers of all time” by cricket writers and broadcasters such as Allan Border and Michael Clarke. Morris died in a car crash in 2011, aged 89, and is survived by his wife and two children. He had a son, Paul, and a daughter, Amy, with whom he had a daughter in the 1990s and a son-in-law, Sarah, who was also a first team all-star for the University of Sydney Cricket Club. His wife died of a heart attack in 2007, when she was in her early 40s, at age 50. Morris’ last match was against Queensland in the 1940s, when he was in his mid-50s, and he was the first Australian to score a century in an Ashes Test. He made his Test debut against England in his third match and scored twin centuries in the following Test, becoming only the second Australian to do so in an ashes Test. His batting average was over 65, but thereafter his form declined.
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