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Batting style
  
Right-hand bat

Role
  
Cricket Player

Name
  
Bruce Francis

National side
  
Australian

Bowling style
  
Right-arm medium


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Bruce Colin Francis (born 18 February 1948, Mosman, New South Wales) is a former Australian cricketer who played three Tests on the Australian tour of England in 1972.

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Francis was a hard-hitting opening batsman, who played for New South Wales from 1968-69 to 1972-73, Essex in 1971 and 1973, and toured South Africa with the D.H. Robins XI in 1973-74 and 1974-75.

A political science graduate, he helped Kerry Packer organise World Series Cricket, became James Packer's private cricket coach, and later helped organise the "rebel" Australian tours to South Africa in 1985-86 and 1986-87.

Francis also provided a response to the World Anti-Doping Authority's ban on 34 past and present players of the Essendon Football Club against the ruling

References

Bruce Francis Wikipedia