Майкл Мел
 Южноафриканская туристическая команда в 1952–53 годах. Мелле стоит вторым справа. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Полное имя | Майкл Джордж Мел | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Рожденный | 3 июня 1930 г. Йоханнесбург , Трансваал | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Умер | 28 декабря 2003 г. (в возрасте 73 лет) Бетти залив , Южная Африка | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ватин | Правша | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Боулинг | Правая рука быстро | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut | 10 February 1950 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 24 January 1953 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Майкл Джордж Мелле (3 июня 1930 года - 28 декабря 2003 г.) был южноафриканским игроком в крикет , который играл в семи тестовых матчах с 1950 по 1953 год. Мелль получил образование в колледже Хилтон .
«Действительно быстрый боулер правой рукой», [ 1 ] Мелле дебютировал в Трансваале в возрасте 18 лет против тура MCC в Йоханнесбурге в 1948–49 годах, открыв боулинг и взяв одну калитку. Для своего следующего матча он был выбран для игры за южноафриканский XI против туристических австралийцев в 1949–50 годах и взял 4 на 82 года. После двух матчей за Трансваал против австралийцев он был выбран, чтобы открыть боулинг с Куан Маккарти в четвертом Тест в Йоханнесбурге, взяв всего шесть первоклассных калиток на 38,33. Еще 19 лет он взял 5 за 113 и 1 за 58 в матче, [ 2 ] затем 2 для 132 в пятом тесте в Порт -Элизабет, которую Австралия выиграла иннингом.
He played his first Currie Cup matches the following season, 1950–51. In the first, for Transvaal against Rhodesia in Salisbury, batting at number eight he scored 50, his highest score to date, and took 2 for 13 and 2 for 30 in an innings victory. In his next match, against Griqualand West in Johannesburg in 1950–51 he took 2 for 22 and 8 for 8 (match figures of 24–8–30–10), bowling Griqualand West out for 29 in the second innings.[3] В шести матчах он взял 27 калиток в 14.40 и был выбран для тура в Англии в 1951 году.
Despite missing several weeks of the tour owing to a hernia operation[4] he headed the tour averages with 50 wickets at 20.28. However, he played only the Fifth Test (when he took figures of 10–6–9–4 in the first innings)[5] the tour selectors preferring to use a two-man pace attack of McCarthy and Geoff Chubb for the first four Tests. He took his best innings and match figures for the tour after the Test series had finished: 2 for 22 and 6 for 71 against T.N. Pearce's XI at Scarborough.
His form fell away somewhat in 1951–52[6] but in six matches he took 17 wickets at 27.35, and as McCarthy was unavailable and Chubb had retired Melle was selected to tour Australasia in 1952–53 as the most experienced of the four pace bowlers in the team. (Of the others, Eddie Fuller and Anton Murray had played no Tests, and John Watkins had played three Tests and taken three wickets.) Melle took seven expensive wickets in the five matches leading up to the First Test, but then at Brisbane, bowling 46.5 eight-ball overs in the Test, he took 6 for 71 and 3 for 95, he and his opening partner Watkins "maintain[ing] an admirable consistency of length and hostility"[7] in a match that Australia won narrowly.[8] However, he took only five wickets for 365 in the next three Tests and lost his place, despite a remarkable performance against Tasmania in Launceston: 3 for 34 in the first innings and, bowling unchanged in the second innings, 9 for 22.[9]
After two matches in the 1953–54 season, he played no more first-class cricket. He was only 23 when he played his last match, hitting his highest first-class score of 59 and taking 2 for 56 and 3 for 28 to help Western Province to victory against Natal at the end of December 1953.[10]
His father Basil played for Western Province, Oxford University, Hampshire and Transvaal between 1909 and 1923.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Christopher Martin-Jenkins, The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers, Rigby, Adelaide, 1983, p. 298.
- ^ Южная Африка против Австралии, Йоханнесбург 1949–50
- ^ Transvaal v Griqualand West 1950–51
- ^ Wisden 2005, p. 1651.
- ^ Англия против Южной Африки, Овальный 1951
- ^ ABC Cricket Book, южноафриканцы Tour 1952–53 , ABC, Sydney, 1952, p. 14
- ^ Wisden 1954, p. 800.
- ^ Австралия против Южной Африки, Брисбен 1952–53
- ^ Тасмания против южноафриканцев 1952–53
- ^ Западная провинция против Натала 1953–54