Full name Frank Bertram Brooks 1909–1922 Rhodesia Role Cricket Player Bowling style Seam bowling | Batting style Right-handed batsman Name Frank Brooks Died 1952, Harare, Zimbabwe National side Southern Rhodesia | |
Born 10 September 1884 ( 1884-09-10 ) Bombay, Maharashtra, India | ||
Frank Bertram Brooks (1884–1952) was a Southern Rhodesian sportsman who represented his country as a cricketer, a rugby union player and as a tennis player.
Biography
Born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India, on 10 September 1884, Frank Brooks was educated at Bedford School. He was a member of one of Southern Rhodesia's greatest sporting families, and the younger brother of Freddie Brooks OBE. He represented Southern Rhodesia in cricket, between 1909 and 1922, in rugby union and in tennis, and was Rhodesian men's doubles champion for twenty-one years, between 1910 and 1931.
Frank Brooks died in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 19 August 1952, aged 67.
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