Homesdale Carl Nitschke (also known as "Jack" or "Slinger") (14 April 1905 in Adelaide, South Australia - 29 September 1982 in North Adelaide, South Australia) was an Australia

Australia

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n and South Australia

South Australia

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 cricket

Cricket

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He only played in two Tests

Test cricket

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 against South Africa in Brisbane

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 and Sydney

Sydney

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 in 1931 and could probably be considered unlucky to have arrived at his best years at the same time as cricketing greats such as Don Bradman, Bill Ponsford

Bill Ponsford

William Harold "Bill" Ponsford MBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman, he formed a successful and long-lived partnership opening the batting for Victoria and Australia with Bill Woodfull, his friend and state and national captain...

, Bill Woodfull

Bill Woodfull

William Maldon "Bill" Woodfull OBE was an Australian cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s. He captained both Victoria and Australia, and was best known for his dignified and moral conduct during the tumultuous bodyline series in 1932–33 that almost saw the end of Anglo-Australian cricketing ties...

, Archie Jackson

Archie Jackson

Archibald "Archie" Jackson , occasionally known as Archibald Alexander Jackson, was an Australian cricketer who played eight Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1929 and 1931. A teenage prodigy, he played first grade cricket at only 15 years of age and was selected for New South Wales at 17...

, Stan McCabe

Stan McCabe

Stanley Joseph McCabe was an Australian cricketer who played 39 Test matches for Australia from 1930 to 1938. A short, stocky right-hander,...

 and Alan Kippax

Alan Kippax

Alan Falconer Kippax was a cricketer for New South Wales and Australia. Regarded as one of the great stylists of Australian cricket during the era between the two World Wars, Kippax overcame a late start to Test cricket to become a regular in the Australian team between the 1928–29 and...

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He had far more impressive statistics in domestic first-class cricket

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where he scored 3,320 runs at an average of 42.03, including nine centuries.