Famous Cricketers No 40 - Neil Harvey

sharing a partnership of 194 with N.C.O’Neill (100) who was also making a return to form. Harvey’s final first-class match was the Fifth Test at Sydney and whilst he did not do very well with the bat he equalled the then record number of catches in a Test match with six which has since been beaten by G.S.Chappell, Yajuvindra Singh and H.P.Tillakaratne with seven. Harvey ended his career as second only to Bradman among Australian batsmen with 21,699 runs and 67 centuries and 6,149 Test runs with twenty-one centuries and had appeared at that time in more Tests than any other Australian - 79. Since then he has slipped down to fourth place in career records behind A.R.Border (27,131 runs with 70 hundreds) and G.S.Chappell (24,535 runs with 74 hundreds) and fifth place behind A.R.Border (11,174), D.C.Boon (7,422) and G.S.Chappell (7,110) in the Test list. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 294. New South Wales v Queensland, Brisbane, October 26, 27, 29, 30 (Match drawn) lbw b B.Fisher 83 432 1 0 6 0 399 - - - - 232-5 295. New South Wales v Western Australian, Sydney, November 2, 3, 5, 6 (New South Wales won by 159 runs) lbw b G.D.McKenzie 44 369-7d 262 not out 128 321-5d 269 296. Australian XI v M.C.C., Melbourne, November 9, 10, 12, 13 (Match drawn) c and b F.J.Titmus 51 451 0.3 0 4 0 633-7d 2 c J.T.Murray b F.J.Titmus 21 201-4 - - - - 68-5d 1 297. New South Wales v M.C.C., Sydney, November 16, 17, 19 (New South Wales won by an innings and 80 runs) b J.B.Statham 63 532-6d 348 104 298. AUSTRALIA v ENGLAND, Brisbane, November, 30, December 1, 3, 4, 5 (Match drawn) b J.B.Statham 39 404 389 c J.B.Statham b E.R.Dexter 57 362-4d 278-8 299. New South Wales v South Australia, Adelaide, December 8, 10, 11, 12 (South Australia won by six wickets) b H.N.Dansie 36 353 469 1 c I.M.McLachlan b G.V.Brooks 32 317 203-4 300. New South Wales v Western Australia, Perth, December 15, 17, 18, 19 (New South Wales won by an innings and 45 runs) c B.K.Shepherd b D.E.Hoare 8 445 159 241 1 301. New South Wales v Victoria, Melbourne, December 22, 24, 26 (Victoria won by eight wickets) c I.R.Redpath b C.E.J.Guest 11 132 1 0 1 0 267 b C.E.J.Guest 4 229 - - - - 95-2 302. AUSTRALIA v ENGLAND, Melbourne, December 29, 31, January 1, 2, 3 (England won by seven wickets) b L.J.Coldwell 0 316 331 run out (G.Pullar/ F.S.Trueman) 10 248 237-3 303. AUSTRALIA v ENGLAND, Sydney, January 11, 12, 14, 15 (Australia won by eight wickets) c K.F.Barrington b F.J.Titmus 64 319 279 lbw b F.S.Trueman 14 67-2 104 304. New South Wales v South Australia, Sydney, January 18, 19, 21 (New South Wales won by ten wickets) not out 231 414-6d 180 1 did not bat - 64-0 294 1 305. AUSTRALIA v ENGLAND, Adelaide, January 25, 26, 28, 29, 30 (Match drawn) c J.B.Statham b E.R.Dexter 154 393 - - - - 331 c K.F.Barrington b J.B.Statham 6 293 1 1 0 0 233-4 306. AUSTRALIA v ENGLAND, Sydney, February 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 (Match drawn) c sub (P.H.Parfitt) b J.B.Statham 22 349 - - - - 321 4 b D.A.Allen 28 152-4 3 0 13 0 268-8d 2 41