testdebutagainst deliveries death_date columns testcap catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling tenfor country club fivefor batting image name lasttestyear fullname heightm birth_place column international role testdebutdate lasttestagainst source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
england balls 111 860 22 august 2015 2 171 15 / -- 73 / -- 1940/41 -- 1954/55 1946 19 january 1922 slow left-arm chinaman -- -- australia new south wales -- -- left-hand batsman arthur morris playing career.jpg arthur morris 1955 arthur robert morris 1.75 bondi , new south wales , australia tests first-class true batsman 29 november west indies http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/0/760/760.html cricketarchive 1922 1 19 yes 3533 12614 1946 2 12 11 june 12/12 46/46 46 162 arthur morris

arthur morris

arthur robert morris mbe -lrb- 19 january 1922 -- 22 august 2015 -rrb- was an australian cricketer who played 46 test matches between 1946 and 1955 .
an opener , morris is regarded as one of australia 's greatest left-handed batsmen .
he is best known for his key role in don bradman 's `` invincibles '' side , which made an undefeated tour of england in 1948 .
he was the leading scorer in the tests on the tour , with three centuries .
his efforts in the fourth test at headingley helped australia to reach a world record victory target of 404 on the final day .
morris was named in the australian cricket board 's team of the century in 2000 and was inducted into the australian cricket hall of fame in 2001 .
in his youth , morris excelled at rugby union as well as cricket , being selected for the state schoolboys ' team in both sports .
originally trained in spin bowling , morris developed as a batsman during his teens and during the 1940 -- 41 season became the first player in the world to score two centuries on his first-class debut .
his career was interrupted by the second world war , during which he served in the australian army and gained selection in its rugby union team .
upon the resumption of cricket in 1946 , morris made his test debut against england and quickly made himself a core member of the team .
he made a century in his third match and scored twin centuries in the following test , becoming only the second australian to do so in an ashes test .
his rise was such that he was made a selector during the `` invincibles '' tour after only 18 months in the team .
after the 4 -- 0 series win over england , which was bradman 's farewell series , morris became australia 's vice-captain and was expected to be its leading batsman .
he started well , scoring two centuries during australia 's first series in the post-bradman era , a tour to south africa that saw australia win the test series 4 -- 0 .
by the end of the south african tour , morris had amassed nine test centuries and his batting average was over 65 , but thereafter his form declined .
australia increasingly fell on hard times as the core of bradman 's team aged and retired .
morris was overlooked for the captaincy and then briefly dropped as his cricketing prowess waned .
his career ended after his first wife became terminally ill .
in later life morris served as a trustee of the sydney cricket ground for over twenty years .
