Basil Onyons

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Basil Onyons


country = Australia
fullname = Basil Austin Onyons
living =
dayofbirth = 14
monthofbirth = 3
yearofbirth = 1887
placeofbirth = Windsor, Melbourne
countryofbirth = Australia
dayofdeath = 31
monthofdeath = 5
yearofdeath = 1967
placeofdeath = Glen Iris, Melbourne
countryofdeath = Australia
batting = Right-handed batsman
bowling = -
role = Batsman
club1 = Victoria
year1 = 1919-1929
deliveries = balls
columns = 1
column1 = First-class
matches1 = 11
runs1 = 997
bat avg1 = 62.31
100s/50s1 = 6/3
top score1 = 136
deliveries1 = 32
wickets1 = 0
bowl avg1 = -
fivefor1 = 0
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = 0-8
catches/stumpings1 = 3/0
date = March 1
year = 1929
source = [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16514/16514.html CricketArchive]

Basil Austin Onyons (14 March 1887 - 31 May 1967) was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria.

Onyons was originally an Australian rules footballer and played for the Melbourne Football Club in the VFL between 1905 and 1908. He kicked 32 goals from his 37 games, with 16 of them coming in the 1906 season which was the most by a Melbourne player that year.

A right-handed batsman who often opened the innings, Onyons made an inauspicious first-class cricket debut, bagging a pair at the Sydney Cricket Ground on the 25th of January 1919 against NSW. [cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9521.html| title=New South Wales v Victoria 1918/19| publisher=CricketArchive]

He didn't play another first-class match until exactly eight years later when he captained Victoria in a game against Tasmania at the MCG. Despite batting at number eight down the order he made 128. [cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12181.html| title=Victoria v Tasmania 1926/27| publisher=CricketArchive]

In a good 1928/29 Sheffield Shield season, Onyons made 582 runs at 72.75 with four hundreds from four games. [cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/AUS/Sheffield_Shield_1928-29/Batting_by_Average.html| title=Batting and Fielding in Sheffield Shield 1928/29| publisher=CricketArchive]

References

External links

* [http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/7047.html Cricinfo page]
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