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144 may 1980 -lrb- aged 67 -rrb- 1 1 / -- rohan buultjens -lrb- son -rrb- 2015 18 february 1913 0 ceylon sri lanka 0 edward buultjens edward wilhelm adolphus buultjens matara , british ceylon fc true http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/26/26181/26181.html cricketarchive 18 february 1913 19 2 1935 -- 1937 0/0 2 edward buultjens

edward buultjens

edward wilhelm adolphus buultjens -lrb- 18 february 1913 -- may 1980 -rrb- was a ceylonese cricketer who played matches for ceylon representative teams , the antecedents of the current sri lankan national side .
born in matara , on the southern coast of what was then the crown colony of ceylon , buultjens was a member of a burgher family that had been resident in the country since the 18th century , descended from a flemish sailor .
he was the fifth child -lrb- and third son -rrb- of john william buultjens , who was headmaster of st. thomas ' college -lrb- a school known for its involvement in cricket -rrb- , and also a local justice of the peace .
edward buultjens attended trinity college , kandy , and received his lion -lrb- an equivalent of the english blue -rrb- in rugby union in 1933 .
his first recorded cricket match for ceylon came during the 1935 -- 36 season , when a marylebone cricket club -lrb- mcc -rrb- side stopped over in colombo on its way to a tour of australia and new zealand .
buultjens made his first-class debut less than a week later , playing for ceylon against the touring australian side led by frank tarrant .
on debut at viharamahadevi park in late october 1935 , he came in third in the batting order in both innings , behind douglas lieversz and louis mendis .
in the first innings he scored two runs before being bowled by ron oxenham , who finished with 9/18 from his 13 overs -- all his victims were either bowled or leg before wicket .
he fared no better in the second innings , bowled for a duck by lisle nagel , but did take the wickets of wendell bill and jack ryder while bowling , finishing with 2/35 .
buultjens again played for ceylon against the mcc during the 1936 -- 37 season .
later in the season , he made his second and final first-class appearance , appearing in march 1937 against a touring side organised by south african businessman sir julien cahn .
buultjens opened the batting with louis mendis , making 10 and 7 in the first and second innings , respectively .
he was bowled by bob crisp , a south african test representative , on both occasions .
buultjens bowled nine overs in the south africans ' first innings , but failed to take a wicket .
the majority of the bowling was done by george pereira , who finished with 7/158 from 55 overs in the same innings .
with his final appearance for ceylon having come at the age of 24 , buultjens died in sri lanka in may 1980 , aged 67 .
his son , rohan buultjens , was also a top-level cricketer , and represented sri lanka in the early 1980s .
