Lives in Cricket No 12 - Ric Charlesworth

death 47-48 Charlesworth, Libby [Elizabeth] 62, 66 , 74 Charlesworth, Milton 10 Charlesworth, Oscar, grandfather of Ric 10 Charlesworth, Oscar, great-grandfather of Ric 10 Charlesworth, Oscar, son of Carmen and Ric 74, 75, 78 , 92 Charlesworth, Ric Personal life: birth, ancestry, childhood family 10 youthful football, cricket, hockey 9, 14-17 personality 5, 48 first marriage 38, 62, 63 second marriage 74, 75, 78 , 85, 87, 89, 93 impact of father’s death 47-48 as mature-age BA student 5-6, 59, 74, 75 ‘sabbatical’ in Tuscany, 2003 6, 75, 78 Cricket playing career: with West Perth club 16-17 club cricket career summary 106 captains state under-19 cricket team 18 for University 22, 23 , 24, 92 for Western Australian Colts 26, 30 first-class debut 26-28 Sheffield Shield matches 26-31, 34-46 first-class century 40 captains Western Australia 40-41, 45 batting style 14, 35, 45, 46 brilliant fielder 35, 39, 44 first-class and limited-overs career summary 103-104 comments on Indian cricket, BCCI 88-90 sees Twenty20 as future of cricket 96-97 Hockey playing career: at school 14, 15, 16 with Cricketers club 8, 15, 16, 25, 62, 106 with Western Australian state sides 16, 48, 61 in international matches 6, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 32, 34, 38, 39, 46, 47, 54, 57, 61 , 62 player of the tournament in World Cup, 1986 62 continues hockey career while in parliament, 1983-88 60, 62 rated Australia’s best ever 5, 46 career summary 105-106 Medical career: student 19-20, 26, 28, 30 designs batting helmet 30, 31, 31 doctor 34, 52, 54 Political career: influences 16, 26, 52 joins Labor Party, 1980 53 pre-selection, election to federal parliament 54, 55 approves early Labor initiatives 56-57 Centre-Left faction member, 57 visits Cambodia, 1986 58 leads delegation to Soviet Union, Mongolia and Japan, 1990 58-59 chairs Labor caucus committee 59 disillusionment with politician’s life 57-59 and Hawke’s leadership 60 supports Keating against Hawke, 1990 59 decides not to seek re-election, 1993 60 Hockey coach: early experience 63 takes coaching job with Australian women’s team 63 unparallelled successes 66, see also Hockeyroos offered Australian men’s coach job, 2000 74 experiences of Indian hockey 82-87, and society 85, 88 appointed Australian men’s hockey coach 90 Cricket coach: approached about Australian position 67-69 views on use of statistics 69-70 New Zealand high-performance manager 79-81 offered high performance position by ECB 81-82 108 Index