Don Taylor (cricketer)
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Donald Dougald Taylor was a New Zealand
cricket
er who played in 3 Tests
from 1947 to 1956. He achieved a world record of over 200 runs for the opening with his batting partner Bert Sutcliffe. His nickname was "Bloke", because of his frequent use of the word.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
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 3 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 1947 to 1956. He achieved a world record of over 200 runs for the opening with his batting partner Bert Sutcliffe. His nickname was "Bloke", because of his frequent use of the word.