Colin Guest
{{Short description|Australian cricketer (1937–2018)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Colin Guest
| image = File:Colin Guest 1962.jpg
| imagesize = 165px
| caption = Colin Guest in 1962
| fullname = Colin Ernest John Guest
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm fast
| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|10|7|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|12|7|1937|10|7|df=yes}}
| death_place = Victoria, Australia
| columns = 2
| column1 = Tests
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 11
| bat avg1 = 11.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 11
| deliveries1 = 144
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1= 0/–
| column2 = First-class
| matches2 = 36
| runs2 = 922
| bat avg2 = 19.20
| 100s/50s2 = 0/3
| top score2 = 74
| deliveries2 = 6,645
| wickets2 = 115
| bowl avg2 = 27.13
| fivefor2 = 5
| tenfor2 = 1
| best bowling2 = 7/95
| catches/stumpings2= 13/–
| international = true
| country = Australia
| onetest = true
| testdebutagainst = England
| testdebutdate = 11 January
| testdebutyear = 1963
| testcap = 222
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/5450.html CricInfo
| date = 21 December
| year = 2018
}}
Colin Ernest John Guest (7 October 1937 – 7 December 2018) was an Australian cricketer who played in the Third Test at Sydney in the 1962–63 Ashes series.{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/938953 |title=Colin Guest, Australia pacer, passes away |work=International Cricket Council |accessdate=9 December 2018}} A fast-medium bowler, Guest played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1958–59 to 1963–64 and for Western Australia in 1966–67.
Cricket career
During the 1962–63 season Guest took his best innings and match figures (7 for 95 and 10 for 134) for Victoria against Western Australia in Melbourne.{{cite web |title=Victoria v Western Australia 1962-63 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1960S/1962-63/AUS_LOCAL/SS/VIC_WA_SS_16-20NOV1962.html |website=Cricinfo |accessdate=10 December 2018}} He was brought in to the Test side to replace Ken Mackay. Guest was used to support Alan Davidson and Garth McKenzie. Although Australia won the Test, and Guest took part in an important partnership with Barry Shepherd for the tenth wicket, Guest failed to take a wicket and was dropped in favour of a return for Mackay.Leslie Smith, "M.C.C. Team in Australia and New Zealand, 1962-63", Wisden 1964, pp. 798–834. He maintained his good form at interstate level and, topping the Sheffield Shield averages with 39 wickets at 18.28, he helped Victoria to win the competition.T. L. Goodman, "Australian inter-state matches", Wisden 1964, pp. 835–57.
His form fell away in 1963–64 and he left for Western Australia, for whom he played one season in 1966–67. He scored 26 not out and 74 (his highest first-class score) in his first game for Western Australia and made some other useful contributions with the bat, but his bowling lacked its former penetration,The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 225. and with strong competition for pace-bowling places in the state side from McKenzie, Sam Gannon, Laurie Mayne, Ian Brayshaw and Jim Hubble, he played no further first-class cricket after that season.
He died in a Melbourne Hospital on 8 December 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/cricketcomau/status/1071550864861605889|title=Tweet|last=cricket.com.au|date=9 December 2018|via=Twitter|language=en|access-date=9 December 2018}}
See also
References
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External links
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Category:Australia Test cricketers
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