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Michael Fitchett (Australian sportsman)

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Full name
  
Michael King Fitchett

Name
  
Michael Fitchett

1950–1953
  
Victoria


Batting style
  
Right-hand batsman

Role
  
Cricket Player

Born
  
30 November 1927 (age 96) (
1927-11-30
)
Hawthorn, Victoria

Bowling style
  
Right-arm off-break

Michael King Fitchett (born 30 November 1927 in Hawthorn, Victoria) is a former sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football with Hawthorn during the early 1950s.

Fitchett featured regularly for Victoria in the 1951/52 Sheffield Shield season and scored his only first-class hundred in an innings against Western Australia at Perth, his 108 coming from seventh position down the order. From his 13 first-class games he managed to score 589 runs at 32.72 and also took nine wickets. His football career lasted three Victorian Football League seasons from 1950 to 1952, playing 30 games and kicking 14 goals.

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Michael Fitchett (Australian sportsman) Wikipedia