Previous Australia Test all-rounder Eric Freeman has died at 76 years old.
Freeman turned into Australia's 244th men's Test cricketer when he made his introduction against India at the Gabba in 1968, eliminating the two openers in the vacationer's first innings with his right-arm quick mediums.
His best arrangement in the loose green came against the West Indies in 1968-69, where he scored 183 runs at 30.50 - including two ground-breaking half-hundreds of years - and took 13 wickets at 30.07. He proceeded to play 11 Tests for Australia in which he scored 345 runs and scalped 34 wickets.
Freeman was likewise a productive entertainer with ball and bat during his 83-game top notch vocation with South Australia.
In the slow time of year, Freeman was a remarkable footballer for Port Adelaide all through a SANFL profession that traversed 116 games, featured by a prevalence in 1965 and the Ken Farmer Medal in 1966 as the group's driving objective kicker (81). Freeman additionally spoke to South Australia on six events.
Freeman got the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2002 for "administrations to don, especially cricket as a player, head and observer".
"Eric will everlastingly be recognized as probably the best competitor South Australia has ever created," said Cricket Australia seat Earl Eddings in a proclamation. "He was an all-rounder in each feeling of the word - ground-breaking with both bat and ball in cricket and an enormous objective kicker with the Magpies in the cold weather months.
"He stayed a mainstream individual from the cricket family after his retirement as a player with analysis parts on the ABC and junior advancement positions with West Torrens. For the benefit of everybody inside Australian cricket, we give our true sympathies to Eric's family," he added.
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