Graeme Thomas
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Grahame Thomas is a former Australia
n cricket
er who played in 8 Tests
from 1965 to 1966. He made his debut a few days short of his 28th birthday in the 1965-66 Ashes series when Bobby Simpson
was injured and was kept on afterwards as he made two fifties in the series and was a good fielder.
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 8 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 1965 to 1966. He made his debut a few days short of his 28th birthday in the 1965-66 Ashes series when Bobby Simpson
Bob Simpson (cricketer)
Robert Baddeley Simpson AO is a former cricketer who played for New South Wales, Western Australia and Australia, captaining the national team from 1963–64 until 1967–68, and again in 1977–78. He later had a highly successful term as the coach of the Australian team...
was injured and was kept on afterwards as he made two fifties in the series and was a good fielder.