deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling tenfor country club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 569 27 february 2011 1 19 / - 1947-48 -- 1955-56 2011 12 april 1921 right-arm medium 0 australia tasmania 0 right-handed emerson rodwell edwin emerson rodwell glenorchy , tasmania , australia fc all rounder http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/7384.html espncricinfo 1921 4 12 y 709 8 1/3 18 emerson rodwell

emerson rodwell

edwin emerson rodwell mm -lrb- 12 april 1921 -- 27 february 2011 -rrb- was an australian soldier , cricket player , umpire , commentator and administrator .
he fought in world war ii , in new guinea , and borneo , and was awarded the military medal .
rodwell was an opening batsman and a prolific run-scorer at club level , and represented tasmania on 15 occasions at first-class level , captaining the side five times between 1950 -- 51 and 1955-56 .
he also played three times for a first-class `` tasmanian combined xi '' .
during his captaincy tasmania won their first first-class match after a winless period of over 20 years , making him the first successful tasmanian captain since jim atkinson in the early 1930s .
