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Frank Jordan (cricketer)

cricketer (1905-1995)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ28124229 ↗
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Frank Jordan (19 September 1905 – 22 October 1995) was an Australian cricketer. He played six first-class matches for New South Wales between 1927/28 and 1928/29.

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“Frank Jordan (cricketer)” enters the record as cricketer (1905-1995). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Frank, Jordan and cricketer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1905, 1995, 1927, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1905-09-19. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Frank, Jordan and cricketer.
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This entry incorporates text from “Frank Jordan (cricketer)” 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.