22 Facts About Ron Saggers

Ronald Arthur Saggers was an Australian cricketer who played for New South Wales.

Ron Saggers played briefly for the Australian team, playing six Tests between 1948 and 1950.

Ron Saggers played in all five Tests and took 21 dismissals, but Tallon replaced him for the home Ashes series against England the following season.

In domestic cricket, Ron Saggers twice captained New South Wales in 1948 when the regular captain, Arthur Morris, was playing for Australia, and overall played domestic cricket from 1939 until 1951.

Ron Saggers was born in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville in 1917.

Ron Saggers married Margaret Heather in Annandale in 1941.

Ron Saggers played twice for the New South Wales Colts team against Queensland Colts in 1937, before making his first-class debut against South Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground halfway through the season in January 1940.

Ron Saggers scored 35 and four at home against Victoria, and then 45 in the second innings of the away match.

Ron Saggers scored 58 as his team reached 429 in response to the oppositions 202 all out.

Ron Saggers then went on to score 47 against South Australia, and 68 against Queensland on 1 January 1941.

Between 1941 and 1942, Ron Saggers' career was interrupted when he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on 6 December 1941 at Sydney.

Ron Saggers served at the Elementary Flight School as Leading Aircraftman RA Saggers 421043, until his discharge on 29 July 1942, Saggers did not return to domestic cricket in Australia until 1945, however.

On 10 December 1948, Ron Saggers, included in AL Hassett's XI for Test trial matches and benefits, as well as continuing his career at New South Wales, scored 38 for the latter against Queensland.

Ron Saggers accompanied the 1948 Ashes tour to England as the reserve wicket-keeper behind the first choice, Tallon.

Ron Saggers then faced Oxford University, scoring six runs and taking one catch, followed by 22 and a stumping at Lancashire, 17 and another stumping at Hampshire, 22 against Yorkshire, 12 and four stumpings against Surrey, and three more stumpings against Gloucestershire.

Australia replied with 458, however Ron Saggers was stumped by England's wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans off the bowling of Laker for only five runs.

England's second innings reached 365 with Ron Saggers taking one catch to secure the wicket of Ken Cranston.

Ron Saggers did complete three stumpings in South Africa's first innings off the bowling of Colin McCool, along with four catches in the match.

Ron Saggers took two catches and completed one stumping in the Third Test, and made two runs in the first innings, though he did not bat in the second as Australia won by five wickets.

Ron Saggers was caught once, stumped once and out leg before wicket once but was never bowled in his international career.

Ron Saggers was replaced again by Tallon, however his form in turn declined and he was replaced by Gil Langley for the 1952 series against the West Indies.

Ron Saggers retired from first class cricket in 1951, and died in Harbord, New South Wales in 1987.