1. Alan Geoffrey Fairfax was an Australian cricketer who played in ten Test matches from 1929 to 1931.
30 Facts About Alan Fairfax
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Alan Fairfax was a child prodigy as a player, breaking records for Kogarah School.
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Alan Fairfax was playing for St George in grade cricket.
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Alan Fairfax made his first class debut shortly afterwards, playing Victoria for NSW, opening the batting with Archie Jackson.
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Alan Fairfax has dropped to medium pace, and, as a result, has a good change of pace in.
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Alan Fairfax has been doing something useful with bat and ball in each representative game he has played.
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Alan Fairfax has a taking style of bowling, with a free swinging high over-arm delivery.
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Alan Fairfax is a keen field, as befits a good baseballer.
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Alan Fairfax was not required to bat in the second innings, with Australia winning by five wickets.
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Alan Fairfax had taken 422 first class runs tat summer at 38.36 and 25 wickets at 27.08.
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Alan Fairfax was selected in the Australian squad that toured England in 1930, despite his underwhelming batting that summer.
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Alan Fairfax played in warm up games for the Australian XI that took place on the boat trip to England.
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Alan Fairfax played against Leicestershire, Essex, Lancashire, the MCC, Derbyshire, Surrey, Oxford Uni, Hampshire and Middlesex.
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Alan Fairfax was picked in the first test against England, with he and Stan McCabe as all rounders in tandem.
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Alan Fairfax played against Surrey and Lancashire.
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Alan Fairfax was not required to bat again as Australia won by seven wickets.
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Alan Fairfax fell ill and missed the third test; his place was taken by another all rounder Ted a'Beckett.
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Alan Fairfax played in matches against Glamorgan, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire.
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Alan Fairfax ended the tour with games against Kent, Sussex, and a Levenson-Gower XI.
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Alan Fairfax took 12 test wickets at 27 and 41 first class wickets at 29.70.
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Alan Fairfax played for NSW against the touring West Indies and Queensland.
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Alan Fairfax kept his place in the test side for the first test against the West Indies.
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Alan Fairfax played for NSW against South Australia and Victoria.
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Alan Fairfax had been unable to find a job in the Depression.
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Alan Fairfax only played two first class games in Australia that summer both for NSW, one against Queensland and the touring South Africans.
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In 1934 Alan Fairfax set up an indoor cricket school in London which he run until 1937 when it shut down.
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Alan Fairfax worked for Sir Julius Cahn's private team and was a critic of Don Bradman's captaincy.
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Alan Fairfax attended games during the 1953 Ashes and continued to write on cricket matters.
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Alan Fairfax fell ill just before Christmas 1954 and died in May 1955 at age 48.
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Alan Fairfax was a cricket zealot, the shrewdest of all judges of a player and probably the finest coach in the world.