Country: | England |
Fullname: | Alfred Joseph Thoburn McGaw |
Birth Date: | 1 April 1900 |
Birth Place: | Haslemere, Surrey, England |
Death Place: | Saint Helier, Jersey |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Leg spin |
Club1: | Sussex |
Year1: | 1928 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 7 |
Runs1: | 170 |
Bat Avg1: | 17.00 |
100S/50S1: | - /1 |
Top Score1: | 52 |
Deliveries1: | 724 |
Wickets1: | 8 |
Bowl Avg1: | 34.25 |
Fivefor1: | - |
Tenfor1: | - |
Best Bowling1: | 4/17 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 3/ - |
Date: | 26 February |
Year: | 2012 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/17203.html Cricinfo |
Lt.-Col. Alfred Joseph Thoburn McGaw (1 April 1900–8 February 1984) was an English cricketer and British Army officer. McGaw was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg spin. The son of John McGaw and Pauline Tate, he was born at Haslemere, Surrey, and was educated at Charterhouse School.[1]
McGaw made his first-class debut in cricket for Sussex against Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1928. He made a second first-class appearance in that season for Sussex, in the return fixture between the teams at the County Ground, Hove.[2] In June 1930, while serving in the British Raj, McGaw made a further first-class appearance for a Punjab Governor's XI against the Muslims.[2] The following year, back in England, McGaw made two first-class appearances for the Army against Oxford University and the Royal Air Force.[2] In that same season he also made a single first-class appearance for the Combined Services against the touring New Zealanders, which saw McGaw make his only first-class half century, with a score of 52.[3] He made a final first-class appearance for the Army in 1932, against the touring South Americans.[2] In his total of seven first-class matches, he scored 170 runs at an average of 17.00, while with the ball he took 8 wickets at a bowling average of 34.25, with best figures of 4/17.[4]
He was married to Sylvia Inez Pakenham Johnstone, with the couple having one daughter, Anne, though Anne died in a car crash in 1974.[1] He then later married a German, named Lisalotta Steiner. They conceived a son, John Joseph McGaw. McGaw lived out his final days at Saint Helier in Jersey, dying in hospital there on 8 February 1984.[1]