Richard Whitington

Richard Smallpeice Whitington (30 ga Yuni 1912 - 13 Maris 1984) ɗan wasan kurket ne na Australiya wanda ya buga wa Kudancin Ostiraliya wasa, kuma bayan ya yi aiki a Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, ya wakilci ƙungiyar wasan kurket ta Australian Services a Gwaje-gwajen Nasara. Ya zama ɗan jarida, yana rubutu a matsayin RS Whitington.

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Whitington a unguwar Unley Park da ke Unley Park a Adelaide, ƙaramin ɗan kasuwa Guy Whitington (23 ga Agusta 1880 - 5 ga Fabrairu 1954)  kuma memba ne na fitaccen dangin Whitington na Kudancin Ostiraliya. Ya halarci Kwalejin Scotch, Adelaide, kafin ya yi karatun lauya a Jami'ar Adelaide kuma ya zama lauya. 

Ya auri Alison Margaret "Peggy" Dale a ranar 19 ga Disamba, 1939; sun rabu a shekarar 1942. Ya yi aiki a Gabas ta Tsakiya a matsayin kyaftin tare da Bataliya ta 2/27 ta rundunar sojojin sama ta biyu. Ya auri Jenny Drake-Brockman a Perth a watan Yuni, 1944.The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 584.

 Aikin kurket 
Whitington ya fara wasan kurket na jiharsa a Kudancin Ostiraliya yana da shekaru 20 a watan Nuwamba na 1932 a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Vic Richardson a matsayin ɗan wasan farko na ƙwallon batsman. Ya kasance memba na ƙungiyar Kudancin Ostiraliya har zuwa Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, yana buga wasanni 36 kuma ya zira kwallaye 1728 a matsakaicin maki 30.85, tare da ƙarni uku. Mafi girman maki da ya ci wa Kudancin Ostiraliya shine 125, wanda ya zira kwallaye biyu a kan Queensland : a 1936–37, yana bugun lamba uku, shine mafi girman maki a wasan da Kudancin Ostiraliya ya ci da maki 112;  a 1938–39, buɗewa, ya sanya 197 don wicket na farko tare da Ken Ridings a nasarar wicket goma.The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 584.

Ya ci gaba da aikinsa na aji na farko bayan hidimar yaƙi, inda ya shiga rangadin Australia Services a Ingila a shekarar 1945, rangadin Ceylon da Indiya, da kuma ɗan gajeren rangadin Australia. Ya buga wasanni 18 a rangadin uku, inda ya zira kwallaye 1054 a matsakaicin maki 35.13."First-class batting and fielding for each team by Richard Whitington". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 December 2016. Ya zira kwallaye ɗari ɗaya, 155, a wasa na biyu cikin uku da ƙungiyar 'yan wasan Indiya XI: farkon wasan, ya zira kwallaye 218 a cikin mintuna 175 don wicket na biyu tare da Jack Pettiford. A wasansa na ƙarshe na aji na farko, wasan ƙarshe na rangadin, ya zira kwallaye 84, wanda shine mafi girman maki na Services XI, a wasan da aka tashi kunnen doki da Queensland.The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 584.

 Aikin Jarida 
Whitington fitaccen ɗan jarida ne kuma marubuci, yawanci yana rubutu a matsayin "RS Whitington", kuma ya daidaita wannan aikin da aikinsa na wasa har zuwa lokacin da ya yi ritaya. An san shi da haɗin gwiwarsa da abokin aikinsa na Services XI Keith Miller ; ma'auratan sun rubuta littattafai da yawa tare. Whitington ya rubuta wa Sydney Sun. Shi ne editan wasanni kuma mai ba da rahoto kan Test na Consolidated Press, mallakar iyalin Packer kuma ke kula da shi. Tsawon shekaru biyar, daga ƙarshen shekarun 1950 zuwa farkon shekarun 1960, ya yi aiki a Afirka ta Kudu . Ya rubuta littattafai da yawa kan wasan kurket, da yawa daga cikinsu Sir Robert Menzies ne ya gabatar da su, kuma a cikin shekarun baya, tarihin rayuwar Sir Frank Packer na hukuma, da kuma tarihin wasan kurket na Australiya.[1] [2]

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 1984
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1912