Basil Onyons Explained

Basil Onyons
Country:Australia
Fullname:Basil Austin Onyons
Birth Date:14 March 1887
Birth Place:Windsor, Melbourne, Australia
Death Place:Glen Iris, Melbourne, Australia
Batting:Right-handed
Role:Batsman
Club1:Victoria
Year1:1919–1929
Columns:1
Column1:First-class
Matches1:11
Runs1:997
Bat Avg1:62.31
100S/50S1:6/3
Top Score1:136
Deliveries1:32
Wickets1:0
Bowl Avg1:
Fivefor1:
Tenfor1:
Best Bowling1:
Catches/Stumpings1:3/0
Date:15 August
Year:2022
Source:https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16514/16514.html CricketArchive

Basil Austin Onyons (14 March 188731 May 1967) was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria.

Onyons was originally an Australian rules footballer and played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1905 and 1908. He kicked 32 goals from his 37 games, with 16 of them coming in the 1906 season which was the most by a Melbourne player that year.

A right-handed batsman who often opened the innings, Onyons made an inauspicious first-class cricket debut, bagging a pair at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 25 January 1919 against NSW.[1]

He didn't play another first-class match until exactly eight years later when he captained Victoria in a game against Tasmania at the MCG. Despite batting at number eight down the order he made 128.[2]

In a good 1928/29 Sheffield Shield season, Onyons made 582 runs at 72.75 with four hundreds from four games.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: subscription . New South Wales v Victoria 1918/19. CricketArchive.
  2. Web site: subscription . Victoria v Tasmania 1926/27. CricketArchive.
  3. Web site: subscription . Batting and Fielding in Sheffield Shield 1928/29. CricketArchive.