Fred Spofforth

Frederick Robert Fred Spofforth , also known as The Demon Bowler, was arguably the Australian cricket teams finest pace bowler of the nineteenth century and was the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets, and the first to take a Test hattrick in 1879. He played in Test matches for Australia between 1877 and 1887, and then settled in England where he played for Derbyshire. In 2011, he was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.

Spofforth was born in the Sydney suburb of Balmain, the son of Yorkshireborn Edward Spofforth, a bank clerk, and his wife Anna, ne McDonnell. Spofforth spent his early childhood in Hokianga, New Zealand and was later educated privately at the Reverend John Pendrills Eglinton House on Glebe Road and, for a short time, at Sydney Grammar School.

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