Fullname: | Francis Ferguson Slaven |
Birth Date: | 3 March 1931 |
Birth Place: | Bulawayo, Matabeleland, Southern Rhodesia |
Death Date: | September 2007 (aged 76) |
Death Place: | Bulawayo, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe |
Family: | Michael Slaven (brother) |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Club1: | Oxford University |
Year1: | 1955 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 2 |
Runs1: | 13 |
Bat Avg1: | 6.50 |
100S/50S1: | –/– |
Top Score1: | 13 |
Hidedeliveries: | true |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 2/– |
Date: | 2 July |
Year: | 2020 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/20809.html Cricinfo |
Francis Ferguson Slaven (3 March 1931 – September 2007) was a Zimbabwean first-class cricketer and conveyancer.
Slaven was born at Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia in March 1931. He later studied in England at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.[1] While studying at Oxford, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford University against Gloucestershire and Lancashire at Oxford in 1955.[2]
After graduating from Oxford, he returned to Southern Rhodesia where he became a conveyancer.[3] Slaven died at Bulawayo in September 2007.[4] His brother, Michael, also played first-class cricket.