Question: What sport was played by Gwilym Kessey and Sid Barnes between 1945 and 1948?

 Able to open the innings or bat down the order, Barnes was regarded as one of Australia's finest batsmen in the period immediately following the Second World War.  He helped create an enduring record when scoring 234 in the second Test against England at Sydney in December 1946; exactly the same score as his captain, Don Bradman, in the process setting a world-record 405 run fifth wicket partnership.  Barnes averaged 63.05 over 19 innings in a career that, like those of most of his contemporaries, was interrupted by the Second World War. Sidney George Barnes (5 June 1916 – 16 December 1973) was an Australian cricketer and cricket writer, who played 13 Test matches between 1938 and 1948. <SEP> Gwilym Taf Kessey (13 January 1919 – 25 June 1986) was an Australian cricketer who played thirteen first-class matches between 1945 and 1950 for Western Australian sides as a wicket-keeper.  He made his debut for Western Australia in 1945 against the Australian Services cricket team, making 22* in his only innings.  Kessey played in Western Australia's inaugural Sheffield Shield match in November 1947 against South Australia, making 12 runs batting at #8.  He played one match for a Western Australia Combined XI featuring Test players Ian Johnson, Ken Meuleman, Bruce Dooland and Sid Barnes against the MCC in 1946, stumping Test cricketers Denis Compton and Bill Edrich.  Overall, he played 13 first-class matches, scoring 320 runs with a highest score of 60, and making 26 dismissals.  His identical twin daughters, Karen and Katherine Kessey, were both actresses. <SEP> The 1946–47 Ashes series consisted of five cricket Test matches, each of six days with five hours play each day and eight ball overs.  Unlike pre-war Tests in Australia, matches were not timeless and played to a finish.  It formed part of the MCC tour of Australia in 1946–47 and England played its matches outside the Tests in the name of the Marylebone Cricket Club.  The England team was led by the veteran Wally Hammond and his vice-captain Norman Yardley with the strong batting line up of Len Hutton, Cyril Washbrook, Bill Edrich, Denis Compton and Joe Hardstaff, but a weak bowling attack that relied on pre-war bowlers like the 37-year-old Bill Voce of Bodyline fame and the mercurial leg-spinner Doug Wright.  The two successes of the tour were the newly capped Alec Bedser, who would carry the England bowling attack until 1955, and Godfrey Evans who would be England's first choice wicketkeeper until 1959.  England had drawn the Victory Tests 2-2 in 1945 and were thought to be equal in strength, but Hammond lost 3-0 to Don Bradman's Australian team which had only two other pre-war players - Lindsay Hassett and Sid Barnes, who had played 5 Tests between them - and was packed with fresh talent in the shape of Arthur Morris, Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall, Colin McCool, Ernie Toshack and Don Tallon.  There were several controversial umpiring decisions which assumed greater significance as they favoured Australia and in particular Don Bradman. <SEP> Sport-Informations-Dienst GmbH (SID) ("Sport Information Service") is a German news agency.  Based in Cologne, it has grown to be a major sport news agencie.  It was founded on 15 September 1945.  In 1998 the Sport-Informations-Dienst became a subsidiary of the Agence France-Presse.