arthur morris Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
arthur morris is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Arthur Robert Morris
Born
January 19, 1922, Bondi, Sydney, New South Wales
Died
August 22, 2015, Sydney, New South Wales, (aged 93 years old)
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Left arm Wrist spin
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 46 | - | - | - |
Inn | 79 | - | - | - |
Runs | 3533 | - | - | - |
Avg | 46.49 | - | - | - |
SR | 0.0 | - | - | - |
HS | 206 | - | - | - |
NO | 3 | - | - | - |
100s | 12 | - | - | - |
50s | 12 | - | - | - |
4s | 301 | - | - | - |
6s | 10 | - | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 46 | - | - | - |
Inn | 6 | - | - | - |
Balls | 101 | - | - | - |
Runs | 50 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 2 | - | - | - |
BBI | 5 / 1 | - | - | - |
BBM | 5 / 1 | - | - | - |
Eco | 2.97 | - | - | - |
Avg | 25.0 | - | - | - |
5W | 0 | - | - | - |
10W | 0 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Australia
- New South Wales
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Morris made his Test debut against England in 1946-47. He flopped in his first two Tests against England, but in Morris' third Test at the MCG, he compiled a fine century. He continued his rich vein of form with hundreds in the next two Tests in Adelaide and at the SCG. In the 1948 Ashes, he and Bradman strung together a monumental stand of 341 for the second wicket at Leeds to help Australia chase down a monstrous target of 404 for the loss of just three wickets.
In fact, by the time Morris had made his Test debut, he was already reckoned as one of the better players going around in Australia. On his First-Class debut against Queensland in 1939, he had composed a century in each innings.
By 1949, he was even considered for captaining the Australian set-up. However, Lindsay Hassett was chosen over him. It didn't deter Morris as he was in prime form in that series. In the 1950-51 Ashes series, Alec Bedser gave him plenty of problems. Morris though, got his form back with a double hundred in Adelaide.
However, after that series his batting went on a downhill path. There were flashes of brilliance like his hundred against the likes of Tyson, Statham and his nemesis, Bedser, in the 1954 Ashes at the Gabba and a century at Port of Spain against the West Indies in 1955, but he seemed to be a shadow of the player he once was.
Morris retired from the game at the age of just 33 after he came to know that his wife, Valerie Morris, was suffering from breast cancer.
By Bharath Ramaraj
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
The acme of elegance and the epitome of sportsmanship, Arthur Morris lost prime run-getting years to the war after the then unprecedented feat, as an 18-year-old, of scoring a hundred in each innings of his first-class debut in December 1940. By his first series against England in 1946-47, however, this calm and compact left-hander was close to the finished article, and scored three consecutive hundreds. He then outscored even Bradman in the Tests of 1948: only three Australians, in fact, have a better Ashes average. Once decoupled from his favourite partner Sid Barnes, Morris was a more spasmodic performer, although he ended a run of outs against England in January 1951 with his highest Test score, 206, and carried on molesting bowlers most civilly for another five years.
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