Harry Alexander (cricketer)

Harry Houston "Bull" Alexander MBE (9 June 1905 – 15 April 1993) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test match, the fifth of the 1932-33 "bodyline series" against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground, as a fast, right-arm opening bowler.^[1]

Harry Alexander

Personal information
Full name	Harry Houston Alexander
Born	(1905-06-09)9 June 1905 Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	15 April 1993(1993-04-15) (aged 87) East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nickname	Bull
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast
International information
National side	Australia
Only Test (cap 149)	23 February 1933 v England
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1928/29–1933/34	Victoria
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class Matches 1 41 Runs scored 17 228 Batting average 17.00 6.16 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 Top score 17* 23* Balls bowled 276 6,449 Wickets 1 95 Bowling average 154.00 33.91 5 wickets in innings 0 2 10 wickets in match 0 0 Best bowling 1/129 7/95 Catches/stumpings 0/0 17/0
Source: Cricinfo, 1 December 2019

He played for Victoria in 27 first-class matches between 1929 and 1933, and toured India with the unofficial Australian team in 1935-36.

His best first-class figures were 7 for 95 for Victoria against New South Wales in the 1932-33 Sheffield Shield.^[2]

He also played 89 matches for Essendon and 4 matches for North Melbourne in Melbourne local competition cricket between 1924–25 and 1936–37.^[3]

During the Second World War Alexander served as a warrant officer in the Australian Army from 1940 to 1945.^[4] He served in Malta, the Middle East and the Pacific.^[5]

Alexander later moved to Euroa in central Victoria, where he worked as a wool classer and became a municipal councillor.^[5]

He oversaw the reconstruction of the local Euroa Memorial Oval to the precise dimensions of the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

He was partly responsible for organising a number of touring teams to play at the oval, including MCC touring teams in 1950/51 and 1965/66.^[5]

He was also a past president of the Euroa Football Club. Social rooms at the Memorial Oval are named in his honour and he is listed in the Alexandra, Euroa & District Cricket Association Hall of Fame.