1. Charles Bannerman was an English-born Australian cricketer.
18 Facts About Charles Bannerman
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Charles Bannerman is most famous for facing the first ball ever bowled in Test cricket, scoring the first run in Test cricket and making the first Test century.
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Charles Bannerman started playing professional cricket in 1871, before making his first-class debut for New South Wales.
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Charles Bannerman played in the first three matches that were later designated as Test matches.
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Charles Bannerman opened the Australian innings and is thus retrospectively deemed to have had the honour of facing the first ball ever bowled in Test cricket and scoring the first ever run in Test cricket.
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Charles Bannerman played in two more matches now recognised as Tests, the second in 1877 and one in 1879.
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Charles Bannerman opened the batting at No 2 partnering Nat Thomson.
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Charles Bannerman was then joined by Australia's wicket-keeper, batting at No 3, Jack Blackham.
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Charles Bannerman had now increased the record career score to 179.
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Charles Bannerman came in when Australia were 88 for 1 to partner Nat Thomson.
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Charles Bannerman became the first, at that time, to score 200 runs in a career and now had scored 209.
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Charles Bannerman had a career first-class batting record of 1,687 runs at 21.62.
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Charles Bannerman did not represent Australia again, officially because of ill-health, but it was suggested that he could not cope with celebrity status, and that gambling debts and alcohol left him impoverished.
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Charles Bannerman continued to play for New South Wales until 1888.
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Between 1887 and 1902, Charles Bannerman stood as umpire in 12 Test matches in Australia.
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Charles Bannerman's colleague was Elisha Rawlinson, standing in his only Test match.
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In two of the matches in which Charles Bannerman officiated, his brother Alick was a player, but no accusations of bias could be made as Alick scored only 23 runs in four innings.
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Charles Bannerman died in Sydney, survived by his widow Mary Ann, nee King, two sons and three daughters; three of the children were the issue of his first marriage to Ellen, nee Neale.