Victor York Richardson OBE (7 September 189430 October 1969) was a leading Australia

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n sportsman of the 1920s and 1930s, captaining the Australian cricket team

Australian cricket team

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 and the South Australian Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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 team, representing Australia in baseball

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 and South Australia in golf

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, winning the South Australian state tennis title and a leading local player in lacrosse, basketball and swimming.
Richardson is most famous for his contribution to cricket, representing Australia

Australian cricket team

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 in 19 Test matches

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 between 1924 and 1936, including five as captain

Australian national cricket captains

Australia played in the first-ever Test match in cricket in 1877, the first-ever One Day International in 1971 and the first-ever Twenty20 international in 2005...

 in the 1935/36 tour of South Africa

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A talented right-handed batsman and rated the best fielder

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 in the world, Richardson made his first-class

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 debut for South Australia

Southern Redbacks

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 in the 1918/19 season.