Samuel Charles Everett was an Australian cricket

Cricket

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er who played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 for New South Wales

New South Wales Blues

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 from 1921 to 1930.

Everett was born in Sydney and educated at Newington College

Newington College

Newington College is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Stanmore, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

 (1917-1918). A right arm fast medium bowler

Fast bowling

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 and left-handed batsman for Petersham

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 Cricket Club , Everett took 134 wickets at first-class level at an average

Bowling average

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 of 27.11 runs per wicket. He was chosen as part of the Australian squad to tour in England in 1926

Australian cricket team in England in 1926

England won the 1926 Ashes series against Australia. England won the last Test of the series after the first four matches were drawn:*1st Test — drawn - *2nd Test — drawn - *3rd Test — drawn -...

 but illness and poor form meant he missed selection for the Test matches

Test cricket

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.

His best bowling figures

Bowling analysis

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, 6/23, was taken against Queensland

Queensland Bulls

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 in January 1930; the same match that Donald Bradman

Donald Bradman

Sir Donald George Bradman, AC , often referred to as "The Don", was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time...

scored his then record 452.