Bill Ponsford

William Harold Bill Ponsford MBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman, he formed a successful and longlived partnership opening the batting for Victoria and Australia with Bill Woodfull, his friend and state and national captain. Ponsford is the only player to twice break the world record for the highest individual score in firstclass cricket Ponsford and Brian Lara are the only cricketers to twice score 400160runs in an innings. Ponsford holds the Australian record for a partnership in Test cricket, set in 1934 in combination with Donald Bradmanthe man who broke many of Ponsfords other individual records.

The son of William and Elizabeth Ponsford, Bill Ponsford was born in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North onOctober 1900. His father was a postman whose family had emigrated from Devon to Bendigo, Victoria, to work in the mines during the 1850s gold rush. His mother was also born in the goldfields, at Guildford, before moving to Melbourne with her father, a Crown Lands bailiff. Ponsford grew up on Newry St in Fitzroy North, and attended the nearby Alfred Crescent School, which stood beside the Edinburgh Gardens.

Source: Wikipedia