Country: | Australia |
Fullname: | George Maddox |
Birth Date: | c. 1811 |
Birth Place: | Ireland |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Right-arm off break |
Club1: | Tasmania |
Year1: | 1850/51 - 1857/58 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 4 |
Runs1: | 29 |
Bat Avg1: | 4.83 |
100S/50S1: | - / - |
Top Score1: | 14 |
Deliveries1: | 73 |
Wickets1: | 2 |
Bowl Avg1: | 20.50 |
Fivefor1: | - |
Tenfor1: | - |
Best Bowling1: | 1/16 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 2/ - |
Date: | 2 January |
Year: | 2011 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/6458.html Cricinfo |
George Maddox (born c. 1811 in Ireland), was an Australian cricket player, who played four games for Tasmania.
He has the distinction of having participated in the first ever first-class cricket match in Australia. Maddox's catch to dismiss the Victorian batsman W. Philpott for 17, off the bowling of Robert McDowell, was the first-ever catch in first-class cricket in Australia.
George Maddox died on 7 July 1867 in Melbourne, Victoria at the age of 56.