1. Thomas Robert Veivers was born on 6 April 1937 and is an Australian former cricketer, teacher, politician and public administrator who played in 21 cricket Test matches between 1963 and 1967.
16 Facts About Tom Veivers
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Tom Veivers was an all-rounder who bowled right-arm off-spin and batted left-handed.
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Tom Veivers did not command a regular spot in the Sheffield Shield team until the following season.
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Tom Veivers was selected for his first Australian squad in 1962, playing in an Australian XI against the visiting English team, in which he was hit for two sixes by Ted Dexter in his opening over.
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Tom Veivers was omitted for the third and fourth Tests, but managed to defy the South Africans with stubborn batting in the fifth Test in Sydney, salvaging a draw.
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Tom Veivers toured England in 1964, playing all Tests and scoring two half-centuries and three three-wicket hauls.
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Tom Veivers scored his Test best of 88 against Pakistan in Australia the following season but was unavailable to tour the West Indies in 1965 for personal reasons.
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Tom Veivers's bowling was economical but not penetrative, with a Test average of over 40.
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Tom Veivers bowled one of the longest known bowling spells in Test cricket - 55 six-ball overs in England's innings of 611 at Old Trafford in 1964.
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Tom Veivers was the non-striker when Simpson reached the 300 and, one Test later, when Fred Trueman took his 300th wicket by dismissing Neil Hawke.
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Tom Veivers was a Brisbane radio station executive before serving as the secretary of the Queensland Cricket Association from 1974 to 1977 and a state selector from 1977 to 1982.
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Tom Veivers had a brief political career, holding the seat of Ashgrove in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1983 to 1986 for the Labor Party.
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Tom Veivers was Commissioner-General of the Australian Pavilion at World Expo 88 in Brisbane in 1988.
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Tom Veivers was Chairman of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research Trust from 1991 to 2000 and was appointed a Fellow of the Institute in 2000.
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Tom Veivers was the president of the QCA from 1989 to 1992.
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Tom Veivers was made a Life Member of Queensland Cricket in 2006.