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Desmond Fitzmaurice

cricketer (1917-1981)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ21604462 ↗
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Desmond Michael John Fitzmaurice (16 October 1917 – 19 January 1981) was an Australian cricketer. He played 17 first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1947 and 1950. In 1949-50 Fitzmaurice toured India with the Commonwealth cricket team, playing as the opening bowler in two tests. Fitzmaurice also played in England in the Central Lancashire league and coached in South Africa.

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“Desmond Fitzmaurice” enters the record as cricketer (1917-1981). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Desmond, Fitzmaurice and cricketer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Desmond Fitzmaurice” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.