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Full name Norman Clifford O'Neill
Born February 19, 1937, Carlton, Sydney, New South Wales
Died March 3, 2008 (aged 71 years 13 days)
Major teams Australia,New South Wales
Batting style Right-hand bat
Relations Son - MD O'Neill
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
42
69
8
2779
181
45.55
6
15
4
21
0
First-class
188
306
34
13859
284
50.95
45
64
104
0
List A
1
1
0
0
0
0.00
0
0
0
0
2
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
42
29
1392
667
17
4/41
5/106
39.23
2.87
81.8
1
0
0
First-class
188
4060
99
4/40
41.01
0
0
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Career statistics
Test debut
Australia v England at Brisbane, Dec 5-10, 1958 scorecard
Last Test
West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown, May 5-11, 1965 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1955/56 - 1966/67
List A span
1964 - 1964
Profile
Norm O'Neill failed to fulfil expectations of his batting only because the forecasts of his greatness were so widespread and demanding. Never "the new Bradman" he was tagged at the outset of his career, he was nonetheless a back-foot player of astonishing power, and a broad-shouldered Adonis who gave off a golden aura of good health. He shone in his first series, against England in 1958-59, demonstrated great adaptability in India and Pakistan a year later, and adorned the 1960-61 Tied Test with 181 in 401 minutes: an innings that, in Jack Fingleton's words, "sparkled like champagne". In 1961 EW Swanton was moved to write that O'Neill "reminded us that the art of batting was not dead, merely dormant". Always a nervous starter, he found form more elusive after that, but he was only 28 when Australia dispensed, rather peremptorily, with his services.
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