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Full name | Leyland Arthur Sanders | ||||||||||||||
Born | Sandgate, Brisbane, Queensland | 17 October 1927||||||||||||||
Died | 3 January 2005 77) Forestville, Sydney, New South Wales | (aged||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Role | Opening batsman | ||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1950/51–1954/55 | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 20 April 2023 |
Leyland Arthur "Ley" Sanders (17 October 1927 – 3 January 2005) was an Australian sportsman who represented Queensland in both Australian rules football and Sheffield Shield cricket.
Sanders had a quick rise in Queensland football, becoming a regular interstate player after his first representative match in 1946. Although mainly a backman, Sanders was often used with success as a forward. He was club captain of Queensland Australian National Football League (QANFL) club Yeronga and then of Coorparoo-Yeronga, a merged outfit which competed in the 1953 and 1954 seasons. He won The Courier-Mail Best and Fairest Cup in 1954.[1][2]
He started his cricket career as a wicket-keeper and had been a promising junior cricketer, captaining the Queensland Colts in 1949 and 1950.[3] With Queenslander Don Tallon keeping wicket for Australia and future Test player Wally Grout the new state gloveman, Sanders was at best the third choice wicket-keeper for Queensland. As a result, he gave up the glovework and tried to get state selection as a specialist batsman.[4]
It was as an opening batsman that Sanders was most often used by Queensland. He made his first-class cricket debut in the 1950/51 Shield season and was never able to become a regular fixture in the side, instead he was used more as a reserve batsman for Queensland, who filled a spot when a player was injured.[5] His best effort with the bat came in the 1951/52 season, against Victoria, when he opened the batting and made 49. He missed out on his half century when he edged a ball from John Cordner to the keeper.[6] After an absence of two years, Sanders played his 10th and final first-class match when he was called up as a middle order batsman for a Shield fixture against New South Wales. He suffered the indignity of scoring a pair and his dismissal in the second innings put debutant spinner Jack Treanor on a hat-trick, which he completed with the wicket of Peter Burge.[7]
References
- ↑ The Courier-Mail, "Code award to Sanders", 7 September 1954. p. 12
- ↑ The Sunday Mail, "The Sunday Mail Names Aces of Queensland Winter Sports", 12 September 1954. p. 33
- ↑ "Other matches played by Leyland Sanders (3)". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ↑ "Leyland Sanders: Wisden Cricketers' Almanack obituary". Cricinfo.
- ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Leyland Sanders (10)". CricketArchive.
- ↑ "Queensland v Victoria". CricketArchive.
- ↑ "Queensland v New South Wales". CricketArchive.