Larry Cordner

{{short description|Australian rules footballer, born 1911}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Larry Cordner

| image = Larry Cordner.png

| country =

| fullname = Laurence Osmaston Cordner

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1911|2|7}}

| birth_place = Warrnambool, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1992|7|11|1911|2|7}}

| death_place = Penshurst, Victoria

| nickname =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Leg-break and googly

| role =

| club1 = Victoria

| year1 = {{nowrap|1930/31–1933/34}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 3

| runs1 = 43

| bat avg1 = 14.33

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 30*

| deliveries1 = 760

| wickets1 = 7

| bowl avg1 = 68.85

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 3/154

| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–

| date = 31 December

| year = 2014

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/11/11880/11880.html CricketArchive

}}

Laurence Osmaston Cordner (7 February 1911 – 11 July 1992) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football in the VFL with Hawthorn.

Cordner made just one VFL appearance for Hawthorn, against Collingwood at Glenferrie Oval during the 1933 season.{{Cite web |last=Gigacz |first=Andrew |date=2021-04-05 |title=The one and only... Larry Cordner |url=https://australianfootball.com/articles/view/the+one+and+only...+larry+cordner/3923 |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=Australian Football}} His cousins were more successful, two of them Denis and Don, are members of the Melbourne Football Club Team of the Century. His half-brother Alan Cordner also played senior VFL football.

The first of Cordner's three first-class cricket matches came in the Sheffield Shield competition of 1930–31 against South Australia, with his only notable contribution being the wicket of Bert Tobin.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/13/13751.html|title=Victoria v South Australia 1930/31| publisher=CricketArchive}} Four weeks later, at the MCG, he was part of the Victorian team which played a tour match with the West Indians. He took five wickets in the match, including Lionel Birkett twice and a prized victim in George Headley.{{Cite web |date=1993-04-15 |title=Obituaries in 1992 |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/obituaries-in-1992-228731 |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=ESPNcricinfo |language=en}} Cordner then saved the game for Victoria with the bat by making 30 not out in the fourth innings as Victoria hung on with nine wickets down.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/13/13768.html|title=Victoria v West Indians 1930/31| publisher=CricketArchive}} His final match came in 1934 against Western Australia.