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Victor York Richardson {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OBE}} (7 September 1894{{spaced ndash}}30 October 1969) was a leading Australian sportsman of the 1920s and 1930s, captaining the Australian cricket team and the South Australian Australian rules football team, representing Australia in baseball and South Australia in golf, winning the South Australian state tennis title and also being a leading local player in lacrosse, basketball and swimming.

Richardson won the South Australian National Football League's highest individual honour, the Magarey Medal, while captain-coach of Sturt in 1920.

Cricket career

Richardson is most famous for his contribution to cricket, representing Australia in 19 Test matches between 1924 and 1936, including five as captain in the 1935-36 tour of South Africa.

A talented right-handed batsman and rated the best fielder in the world,^[1] Richardson made his first-class debut for South Australia in the 1918-19 season. In a career that lasted twenty years he played 184 matches for Australia and South Australia, scoring 10,724 runs, including 27 centuries and averaging 37.63. He took 211 catches (at an average of 1.15 catches per match) and even completed four stumpings as a stand-in wicketkeeper.

Richardson was Australian vice-captain for the 1932-33 English tour of Australia, known as the Bodyline series for England's tactics of bowling fast short-pitched deliveries at the batsmen's bodies. During the series, Richardson exclaimed to his teammates "which of you bastards called [Harold] Larwood a bastard instead of this bastard [Douglas Jardine]?"^[2]

Richardson played his final Test against South Africa at Durban on 28 February 1936, aged 41 years 178 days. Only ten Australians have played Test cricket at an older age.^[3] He took five catches in the second innings, setting a Test record that has never been beaten and was not equalled until Yajurvindra Singh took five in 1976-77.^[4]^[5]

Following his retirement from cricket, Richardson was appointed South Australian coach in September 1949, replacing Arthur Richardson.^[6]

To honour his memory and the impact he made for his state, the South Australian Cricket Association dedicated the "Victor Richardson Gates" at the Adelaide Oval and the road leading to them in his honour.^[7]

Australian rules football career

Richardson made his senior Australian rules football debut for Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League in 1915 and in a career interrupted by World War I, played 114 games for Sturt, kicking 23 goals.

Other sports

Richardson was a gifted sportsman and excelled in other sports besides cricket and Australian rules football, including baseball (national and state representative), golf (state representative), tennis (state title winner), lacrosse, basketball and swimming.

Media career

After retiring from first-class cricket he went on to become a respected radio commentator, forging a partnership with renowned former English Test captain Arthur Gilligan.^[8]

Political aspirations

In March 1949 Richardson announced that he would seek Liberal and Country League (LCL) pre-selection for the new federal Division of Kingston, situated in Adelaide's south.^[9] At the time Richardson lived on Richmond Road, Westbourne Park, which was located in the electorate.^[9]

Family

On 29 January 1919 Victor Richardson married Vida Yvonne Knapman, daughter of hotelier Alf Knapman (1867–1918).^[10] She died on 25 September 1940; they had one son and three daughters.^[11]

He was a grandfather to three future Australian Test cricketers Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell (who both also captained Australia at Test level) and Trevor Chappell.

Awards and honours

Richardson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 10 June 1954 for his services to cricket, including his presidency of the Country Carnival Cricket Association.^[12]

Sources

1. ^Sydney Morning Herald, "Vic Richardson dies at 75", 31 October 1969, p. 12.
2. ^{{cite news| title=The Ashes 2010: sledging part and parcel of England v Australia battles | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/theashes/8221316/The-Ashes-2010-sledging-part-and-parcel-of-England-v-Australia-battles.html | work=The Telegraph| date=23 December 2010| accessdate=12 January 2011}}
3. ^{{cite news| title=Oldest players| url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283722.html|publisher=Cricinfo| date=| accessdate=10 January 2011}}
4. ^Wisden 2007, p. 365.
5. ^{{cite web|title=5th Test, Australia tour of South Africa at Durban, Feb 28-Mar 3 1936|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/17554/scorecard/62637/South-Africa-vs-Australia-5th-Test-australia-in-south-africa-test-series/|website=Cricinfo|accessdate=5 November 2017}}
6. ^The Advertiser (Adelaide), "New State Coach", 9 September 1949, p. 15
7. ^Richardson, inside back cover.
8. ^{{cite news| title=Richardson, Victor York (1894–1969)| url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110395b.htm|publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography| date=| accessdate=28 October 2010}}
9. ^¹The News, "Vic Richardson to seek L.C.L. endorsement", 21 March 1949, p. 1.
10. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63760661 |title=Richardson—Knapman |newspaper=The Mail |location=Adelaide |date=1 March 1919 |accessdate=2 May 2015 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
11. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78102943 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Border Watch|location=Mount Gambier, SA |date=26 September 1940 |accessdate=2 May 2015 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
12. ^{{cite news| title=Richardson, Victor York| url=http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1108055&search_type=quick&showInd=true|publisher=It's an Honour| date=1954-06-10| accessdate=23 December 2009}}

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