Famous Cricketers No 40 - Neil Harvey

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Tests 5 10 0 395 154 39.50 1 2 6 Sheffield Shield 6 9 2 577 231* 82.42 2 1 1 Other matches 2 3 0 135 63 45.00 - 2 3 1962/63 13 22 2 1107 231* 55.35 3 5 13 Career 306 461 35 21699 231* 50.93 67 94 228 Bowling O M R W BB Ave Tests 4 1 13 0 - - Sheffield Shield 2 0 7 0 - - Other matches 0.3 0 4 0 - - 1962/63 (8-ball) 6.3 1 24 0 - - Career (8-ball) 173.5 27 } 1106 30 4/8 36.86 (6-ball) 197.3 67 Postscript After retirement he served New South Wales and Australia as a selector from 1967/68 to 1978/79. He received the MBE for his services to cricket in 1963 and was made a life member of the New South Wales Cricket Association on the 21st October 1963. In 1978 he was appointed General Manager of the New South Wales Sports Store in Sydney which had been founded in 1928 by Alan Kippax. He made regular visits to England, made several appearances at The Oval against Old England during the Eighties and when he attended Scarborough for the Centenary Festival in 1986 with his old Test colleague Ray Lindwall he still proved popular with the English cricketing public. 42