15-1549: Robert Harvey or Rob Harvey may refer to: Sports [ edit ] Robert Harvey (cricketer) (1911–2000), South African cricketer Robert Harvey (footballer) (born 1971), Australian rules football coach and former player Politicians [ edit ] Robert Harvey (Australian politician) (1897–1968), member of the Tasmanian Parliament Robert Harvey (Clwyd politician) (born 1953), British historian and Conservative politician, former MP for Clwyd South West (1983–1987) Sir Robert Harvey, 1st Baronet, of Crown Point (1817–1870), MP Thetford 1865–1868 Sir Robert Harvey, 1st Baronet of Langley Park (1825–1887), MP Buckinghamshire 1863–1868, 1874–1885 Others [ edit ] R. C. Harvey (Robert C. Harvey, born 1937), author, critic and cartoonist Rob Harvey (special effects artist) , Academy Award-winning special effects artist Sir Robert Harvey (businessman) (1847–1930), British saltpetre producer in Bolivia, Peru and Chile Robert Harvey (literary theorist) (born 1951), literary scholar and academic Robert Harvey (musician) (born 1983), British musician Robert B. Harvey , co-founder of Harvey Comics See also [ edit ] Bobby Harvey (born 1955), Scottish footballer with Clyde Bob Harvey (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
30-517: A second-wicket stand of 135 with Herby Wade who was captain of both the Natal and the South African teams. Harvey was retained for the fifth Test and made scores of 28 and 1 in another heavy defeat being, in the second innings, the first out of five dismissals (of the last six batsmen in the team) to be caught by Vic Richardson off the bowling of Grimmett. On the whole tour of South Africa by
45-514: A touring Australian side against Yorkshire in 1930, he took 10 wickets for 37 runs off 22.3 overs, one of only a very small number of players to have claimed all of the wickets in an innings . He took 513 wickets in his 79 Sheffield Shield matches. Grimmett was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1931, the same year as Donald Bradman . He died in Kensington Park , Adelaide , in 1980, but
60-465: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Robert Harvey (cricketer) Robert Lyon Harvey MBE (14 September 1911 – 20 July 2000) was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1935–36. Harvey was a right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He played first-class cricket for Natal in two matches in 1933–34 without success. But when he
75-585: Is for his performances in Test cricket for the Australian cricket team that he is best remembered. Grimmett played 37 Tests between 1924 and 1936, taking 216 wickets at an average of 24.21. He took two five wicket hauls on debut against England in Sydney in 1925. He became the first bowler to reach the milestone of taking 200 Test wickets, and is one of only five Test bowlers who played in their first Test after
90-568: The Australians, only four centuries were scored off them: two by Nourse (one in a Test) and two by Harvey. Those centuries, though, were the only ones in Harvey's first-class cricket career. He remained as a batsman and, increasingly, a bowler with Natal up to the 1939–40 season but although he passed 50 on 11 further occasions, he did not reach 100 again. He took his best bowling figures in 1939–40, 5 for 21 in Natal's victory over Border . At
105-454: The age of 17. At that time, New Zealand was not a Test cricketing nation, and in 1914 he moved to neighbouring Australia. He played club cricket in Sydney for three years. In his first match in senior cricket, he took 12 wickets for 65 runs. After marrying a Victorian , he moved to Melbourne , where he played first-class cricket for Victoria . He moved to South Australia in 1923, but it
120-424: The age of thirty to take more than 100 wickets, the other four being Dilip Doshi , Saeed Ajmal , Ryan Harris and Mohammed Rafique . He took an average of six wickets per match. Many wickets in the last four years of his Test career were taken bowling in tandem with fellow leg-spinner Bill O'Reilly . Grimmett remains the one of the few bowlers with career figures of over 200 wickets in fewer than 40 Tests. He held
135-539: The developer of the flipper . Grimmett was born in Caversham , Dunedin , New Zealand, on Christmas Day 1891, leading Bill O'Reilly to say that he "must have been the best Christmas present Australia ever received from that country." A schoolmaster encouraged him to concentrate on spin bowling rather than fast bowling. He played club cricket in Wellington , and made his first-class debut for Wellington at
150-515: The end of the Second World War, as a temporary captain in the South African forces, he was awarded an MBE . This biographical article related to South African cricket is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Clarrie Grimmett Clarence Victor Grimmett (25 December 1891 – 2 May 1980) was a New Zealand-born Australian cricketer . He was one of the finest spin bowlers of his all time and usually credited as
165-615: The record for the fastest bowler to take 200 wickets in Tests, doing so in his 36th match. The record stood for 82 years, until Yasir Shah of Pakistan broke that mark in December 2018 . He took a five-wicket haul on 21 occasions, seven times finishing with ten wickets or more in a match. His Test career only began when he was aged 33, and ended when he was 44, playing his last Test against South Africa in Durban . Despite taking 44 wickets in
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195-415: The series, and continued success in first-class cricket, he was dropped for the 1936/7 series at home against England, replaced by Frank Ward , and did not join the 1938 tour to England. His first-class records hold a total of 1,424 wickets in 248 matches between 1911 and 1941, again at a rate close to six wickets per match. This total included 5 wicket bags on over 120 occasions and – in one performance for
210-509: Was picked again two years later for Natal in the match against the 1935–36 Australians , he scored 16 and 104. Although eventually bowled by Clarrie Grimmett , he resisted for three and three-quarters hours, and "alternated periods of hard hitting with rigid defence". After Grimmett (and Bill O'Reilly ) had led Australia to two Test victories in the first three matches of a five-game series, with no South African batsman apart from Dudley Nourse making more than 66 runs in any one innings, Harvey
225-465: Was picked for the fourth Test. He had limited success, scoring 5 and 17 as the South Africans suffered their worst defeat of the series, though he did hit one six off Grimmett. The only first-class match between the fourth and fifth Tests was the second game between Natal and the Australians, and this time Harvey scored 138, slightly more than half the Natal first-innings total of 272; he shared
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