Charles Eady
{{Short description|Australian cricketer}}
{{For|the British lawyer and judge|Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Charles Eady
| image = Charles Eady.jpg
| caption =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm fast
| columns = 2
| column1 = Test
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 20
| bat avg1 = 6.66
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 10*
| deliveries1 = 223
| wickets1 = 7
| bowl avg1 = 16.00
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 3/30
| catches/stumpings1= 2/–
| column2 = First-class
| matches2 = 43
| runs2 = 1,490
| bat avg2 = 22.92
| 100s/50s2 = 3/6
| top score2 = 116
| deliveries2 = 6,562
| wickets2 = 136
| bowl avg2 = 23.13
| fivefor2 = 12
| tenfor2 = 5
| best bowling2 = 8/34
| catches/stumpings2= 45/–
| international = true
| country = Australia
| testdebutagainst = England
| testdebutdate = 22 June
| testdebutyear = 1896
| testcap = 73
| lasttestdate = 28 February
| lasttestagainst = England
| lasttestyear = 1902
| source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5115.html Cricinfo
| date = 12 October
| year = 2022
}}
Charles John Eady (29 October 1870 – 20 December 1945) was an Australian sportsman, lawyer and politician.
Life and career
Eady was a cricketer who played for Tasmanian clubs and representative sides in the era before Tasmania was accepted into the Sheffield Shield and other competitions.{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/0/209/209.html| title = Charlie Eady |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 4 October 2011}} He also played in Test cricket twice for Australia becoming the only cricketer to play his only two test matches, one in the 19th century and one in the 20th century.
A big man, standing six feet three inches or 1.90 metres tall, Eady was an all-rounder: a hard-hitting right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He made 116 and 112 not out for Tasmania against Victoria in 1895 and was picked for the tour to England in 1896. But he failed to do himself justice, scoring just 12 runs in the Lord's Test match, though he picked up four fairly cheap wickets. He made one more Test appearance in 1901–2, again with little success.
Eady's chief claim to being remembered is a remarkable innings played in a club match between the Tasmanian club Break o' Day and the Wellington club, which was another Tasmanian team and not the current side from New Zealand, in 1902, when he scored 566 from a total of 911.{{cite web |title=Break o' Day v Wellington, Tasmania Cricket Association Ground, Hobart on 8th, 15th, 22nd March, 5th April 1902 |url=https://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/318/318340.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=17 April 2024 |url-access=subscription}}{{cite magazine |title=Obituary |url=https://magazine.cricketarchive.com/Magazine/1946/spring_annual_1946/76/index.html |magazine=The Cricketer |publication-date=1946 |page=75 |via=CricketArchive |access-date=17 April 2024}}{{efn|name=fn1|Team score given as 908 in Wisden 1946{{Cite book | title = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | edition = 1946 | publisher = Wisden | chapter = Obituary | page = 439}} but other sources such as CricketArchive and The Cricketer record it as 911.}} This is the third highest score in any form of cricket, behind Pranav Dhanawade's 1009 not out in 2016 and A. E. J. Collins' 628 not out in 1899. Eady also took all 10 wickets for 42 runs in an innings for South Hobart versus East Hobart in 1906.
Eady later served as president of the Australia Board of Control, later Cricket Australia and was also President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1944 to 1945.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26154409 |title=Mr C. J. Eady, Politician and Sportsman, Dies at 75 |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tasmania |date=21 December 1945 |accessdate=21 August 2011 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Eady was also an outstanding Australian rules football player, and served two terms totalling 25 years as President of the Tasmanian Football League.{{cite web|last=Cardosi|first=Adam|title=Neglected heroes – The sad case of the Australian Football Hall of Fame/|url=http://australianfootball.com/articles/view/Neglected%2Bheroes%253A%2BThe%2Bsad%2Bcase%2Bof%2Bthe%2BAustralian%2BFootball%2BHall%2Bof%2BFame/802|work=australianfootball.com|accessdate=14 March 2014}}
On 23 October 1903 he married Florence Guesdon in Hobart. She was the daughter of William Guesdon.{{cite book |last1=Valentine |first1=Barbara |title=Eady, Charles, in, Australian Dictionary of Biography |chapter=Eady, Charles John (1870–1945) |date=1981 |publisher=Melbourne University Press |location=Melbourne |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/eady-charles-john-6075 |access-date=15 April 2022}} When he died on 20 December 1945 he was survived by daughter, his wife having died nine months earlier.
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Charles Eady }}
- [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/columns/content/current/story/261666.html Article on Eady's 566]
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{{s-ttl|title=President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council|years=1944–1945}}
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{{s-bef|before=James Chapman}}
{{s-ttl|title=Member for Hobart|years=1925–1945|alongside=Propsting/Strutt, Murdoch/McKenzie/Gaha/Tyler/Lonergan}}
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Category:Australia Test cricketers
Category:Presidents of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
Category:Australian cricketers
Category:Cricketers from Hobart