Alan Thomson
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Alan Lloyd "Froggy" Thomson (born 2 December 1945), a school teacher, is a former Australia
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er and Australian rules football umpire
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He played District cricket with the Fitzroy Cricket Club, and took 5/39 against Richmond in their first innings, in his first ever first XI match for the club, on Saturday, 27 March 1965 (he had scored 10 runs for Fitzroy in their first innings on the previous Saturday).http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GRwRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5664%2C3390817http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GxwRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2343%2C3959754 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FzpVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6431%2C136020http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FzpVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3389%2C136013
A right-arm fast-medium who delivered the ball with a windmill-like action, off the "wrong foot".http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=anxXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UvEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3233%2C1489724 ("bowled off his front leg like a frog in a windmill" hence his name) - He played in 4 Tests
and one ODI from 1970 to 1971.
Thomson took 6/80 and 3/101 in Victoria
's tour match against the M.C.C.
1970-71 as the tourists were dismissed for 142 and 341 and lost by 6 wickets. As a result he was called up for the First Test in the 1970-71 Ashes series, but failed to live up to expectations. In the Fifth Test at Melbourne
Thomson bowled bouncers at the England fast bowler John Snow
, who had hit Garth McKenzie on the head in the previous Test, and six in one eight-ball over against the captain Ray Illingworth
. Thomson was not warned for intimidatory bowling, which Snow thought was partisan umpiring as Snow was repeatedly warned throughout the series. In his last Test he shared the new ball with debutant Dennis Lillee
.
He is famous for taking the first-ever wicket in ODI cricket (Geoff Boycott caught by Bill Lawry
for 8 runs); it was his only ODI wicket.
He was also a senior Australian rules football umpire, umpiring Senior Grade VFL football, at a time when there was only one field umpire, and before the transformation of the VFL into the AFL.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er and Australian rules football umpire
Umpire (Australian rules football)
An umpire is an official in the sport of Australian rules football.-Origins:Unlike many other codes of football, where the official is called a referee, in Australian Football, the officials borrow their title from the game of cricket, which is played on the same types of fields and was an...
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He played District cricket with the Fitzroy Cricket Club, and took 5/39 against Richmond in their first innings, in his first ever first XI match for the club, on Saturday, 27 March 1965 (he had scored 10 runs for Fitzroy in their first innings on the previous Saturday).http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GRwRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5664%2C3390817http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GxwRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2343%2C3959754 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FzpVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6431%2C136020http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FzpVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3389%2C136013
A right-arm fast-medium who delivered the ball with a windmill-like action, off the "wrong foot".http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=anxXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UvEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3233%2C1489724 ("bowled off his front leg like a frog in a windmill" hence his name) - He played in 4 Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
and one ODI from 1970 to 1971.
Thomson took 6/80 and 3/101 in Victoria
Victorian Bushrangers
The Victorian cricket team, nicknamed the Bushrangers, is an Australian cricket team based in Melbourne, that represents the state of Victoria. It is administered by Cricket Victoria and draws its players from Melbourne's Premier Cricket competition...
's tour match against the M.C.C.
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...
1970-71 as the tourists were dismissed for 142 and 341 and lost by 6 wickets. As a result he was called up for the First Test in the 1970-71 Ashes series, but failed to live up to expectations. In the Fifth Test at Melbourne
Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...
Thomson bowled bouncers at the England fast bowler John Snow
John Snow (cricketer)
John Augustine Snow played cricket for Sussex and England in the 1960s and 1970s. Despite being the son of a country vicar and publishing two volumes of poetry Snow was England's most formidable fast bowler between Fred Trueman and Bob Willis and played Test Matches with both of them at either end...
, who had hit Garth McKenzie on the head in the previous Test, and six in one eight-ball over against the captain Ray Illingworth
Ray Illingworth
Raymond Illingworth, CBE is a former English cricketer, cricket commentator and cricket administrator. He was one of only nine players to have taken 2,000 wickets and made 20,000 runs in First class cricket, and the last one to do so...
. Thomson was not warned for intimidatory bowling, which Snow thought was partisan umpiring as Snow was repeatedly warned throughout the series. In his last Test he shared the new ball with debutant Dennis Lillee
Dennis Lillee
Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE is a former Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation"...
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He is famous for taking the first-ever wicket in ODI cricket (Geoff Boycott caught by Bill Lawry
Bill Lawry
William Morris "Bill" Lawry, AM is a former cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. He captained Australia in 25 Tests, winning nine, losing eight and drawing eight, and led Australia in the inaugural One Day International match, played in 1971...
for 8 runs); it was his only ODI wicket.
He was also a senior Australian rules football umpire, umpiring Senior Grade VFL football, at a time when there was only one field umpire, and before the transformation of the VFL into the AFL.