Alfred Johns
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| Full name | Alfred Edward Johns | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 January 1868 Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 February 1934 (aged 66) Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | Peter Johns (father) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1894–95 to 1898–99 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo | |||||||||||||||
Alfred Edward Johns (22 January 1868 – 13 February 1934) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Australia and Victoria between 1895 and 1899.[1]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Born in Hawthorn, Melbourne, he was one of eight children of Elizabeth (née Tudor) and Peter Johns, founder of the lift manufacturing firm Johns & Waygood.[2] After attending Wesley College in Melbourne he studied law and practised as a lawyer in Melbourne. He gave up the law in 1899 when his father died, and succeeded his father as director of Johns & Waygood.[3] Johns died in 1934 in Melbourne, aged 66.
Cricket career
[edit | edit source]Johns made his first-class debut for Victoria in a match against the touring English team in March 1895.[4] A wicket-keeper and left-handed batsman, he toured with the Australian national team to England twice, in 1896 and 1899, without playing in a Test Match.[5] Unusually for an Australian player, over half of Johns' first-class matches were played in England rather than Australia.[5]
Johns returned early from the 1899 tour of England when his father died, and retired from cricket immediately. Tom Horan wrote at the time that Johns was the best wicket-keeper Australia had ever had, apart from Jack Blackham.[6]
See also
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