15 Facts About Ted Pickett

Ted Pickett has been called "probably the greatest all-round sportsman Tasmania has produced".

However, Ted Pickett is considered one of the best wicketkeepers to play for Tasmania with his stumping ability particularly impressive.

Ted Pickett's boss agreed on the condition that the paper got a photo of Don Bradman batting while Ted Pickett was keeping.

Unfortunately for Ted Pickett, Nash got Bradman out lbw for 22 before the Examiner's photographer arrived.

At lunch, Ted Pickett approached Bradman and asked for a photograph.

Bradman and Pickett strode out to the middle, Bradman took strike and Pickett crouched behind the stumps and a picture was taken, leaving Pickett to spend the next few weeks explaining to everyone that Bradman had not started a trend for batting without pads.

Ted Pickett was a leading Australian rules footballer, playing for Launceston and Longford in the Northern Tasmania Football Association.

Ted Pickett won the Tasman Shields Trophy for the NTFA best and fairest in 1935.

Ted Pickett played for Northern Tasmania a number of times against visiting interstate sides.

Ted Pickett played in the Australian billiards championship four times and in 1955 was the first player to win the Tasmanian billiards and snooker titles in the one year.

Ted Pickett played in three Australian snooker championships, and won the national title in 1955, becoming the first Tasmanian to do so.

Ted Pickett was Walter Lindrum's opponent in a series of charity exhibition matches held around Tasmania.

That Ted Pickett did not concentrate on one sport is considered to have cost him national representation.

The Ted Pickett Shield, awarded to the winner of the Tasmanian snooker championships, is named in his honour.

Ted Pickett's age of 99 years and 302 days places him third among the longest-lived of Australian first-class players and his living 79 years and 345 days after his first-class debut is a record in Australian cricket.