Full name George Maddox Name George Maddox 1850/51–1857/58 Tasmania | Batting style Right-handed Role Cricket Player | |
Born 1811 Ireland Died 1867, Melbourne, Australia | ||
Bowling style Right-arm off break | ||
George Maddox (born 1811 in Ireland), was an Australian cricket player, who played four games for Tasmania.
He has the distinction of having participated in the first ever first-class cricket match in Australia. Maddox's catch to dismiss the Victorian batsman W. Philpott for 17, off the bowling of Robert McDowell, was the first-ever catch in first-class cricket in Australia.
George Maddox died on 7 July 1867 in Melbourne, Victoria at the age of 56.
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