Brian Taber
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Hedley Brian Taber is a former Australia
n cricket
er who played in 16 Tests
from 1966 to 1970.
A wicket-keeper
, Taber played 129 first-class
matches with a career batting average of 18.01 and a highest Test score of 48 and first-class score of 109.
On his Test debut he held seven catches and took one stumping.
After retiring from cricket he became a coach and then New South Wales
Chairman of Selectors.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played in 16 Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
from 1966 to 1970.
A wicket-keeper
Wicket-keeper
The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...
, Taber played 129 first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
matches with a career batting average of 18.01 and a highest Test score of 48 and first-class score of 109.
On his Test debut he held seven catches and took one stumping.
After retiring from cricket he became a coach and then New South Wales
New South Wales Blues
The New South Wales cricket team are an Australian first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales...
Chairman of Selectors.