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| Full name | John Pruen Cordner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1929-03-20)20 March 1929 Diamond Creek, Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 December 2016(2016-12-10) (aged 87) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1951/52 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1952 | Warwickshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 10 April 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Pruen Cordner (20 March 1929 – 10 December 2016) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with Melbourne.
Born in Diamond Creek, Victoria, Cordner came from a famous Australian rules football family with three brothers, Don, Denis and Ted all having noted careers for the Melbourne Football Club. John spent just one season with Melbourne, in 1951, and played six VFL games.
Unlike his brothers, John excelled at cricket and made his first-class debut for Victoria in the 1951/52 Sheffield Shield season. Playing against Queensland at Brisbane he dismissed both openers, Leyland Sanders and Wally Grout, with his left-arm fast-medium bowling to finish with figures of 2 for 37 in the first innings. Despite playing another three first-class matches he only managed to take one further wicket. The last of those matches was for English side Warwickshire when they took on the touring Indian cricket team. He was in England at the time studying nuclear science. He played 34 district cricket matches for University, and took 80 wickets at 22.1.
He died in December 2016.
References
- Taylor, Percy, "That Amazing Cordner Family: Brawn and Brains Combined Gives Them a Record Unique in Victorian History", The Argus, (Friday, 26 September 1952), p. 4.
- Allen, David, "Dynasty: The Cordner Family", The Yorker, (Spring 2019), pp. 26–31.
- "Queensland v Victoria 1951/52". CricketArchive.
- "Warwickshire v Indians 1952". CricketArchive.
- "Obituaries: John Cordner". Professional Cricketers' Association. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- "VCA 1st XI CAREER RECORDS 1889-90 to 2019-20 A-C" (PDF). Cricket Victoria. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 March 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- Ando’s Shout: Hawthorn gun Gary Buckenara hands back Carlton legend Bruce Doull’s 1986 Grand Final guernsey
External links
- John Cordner's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- John Cordner at Demonwiki.
- John Cordner at ESPNcricinfo