Benjamin Caine Hollioake was an English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club and the England cricket team.
11 Facts About Ben Hollioake
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Later that year, Adam and Ben Hollioake made their England Test debut in the same game, becoming only the third set of brothers to do so.
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Ben Hollioake made two Test appearances and earned 20 ODI caps before he was killed in a car crash in Australia at the age of 24.
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The son of an Australian engineer and his Indonesian wife, Ben Hollioake was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1977.
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Ben Hollioake got his cricketing start in Hong Kong, where the family lived for two years until he was five, before they moved on to England.
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Ben Hollioake moved to England in 1984 along with his older brother, Adam, for 2 years and then a further 3 years in Hong Kong before returning to Australia.
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Ben Hollioake was educated at Millfield Preparatory School and later at Wesley College, Perth.
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Ben Hollioake's performance led to the media comparing him to the great English all-rounder Ian Botham.
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Aged 19 years and 269 days, Ben Hollioake was England's youngest Test player since Brian Close in 1949.
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Ben Hollioake played one more Test match, against Sri Lanka in 1998, scoring 14 and 0 with the bat, and bowling two for 105.
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Ben Hollioake died on 23 March 2002 in Perth, Western Australia, near his childhood school, Wesley College, when he crashed his Porsche 924 into a wall on the Mill Point Road exit of the Kwinana Freeway on his way home from a family celebration.