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Grahame Egan

Australian cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ99895676 ↗
Source-derived summary

Grahame Egan (born 8 June 1941) is an Australian former cricketer. He played in six first-class matches for Queensland between 1963 and 1965.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Grahame Egan” as australian cricketer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Grahame, Egan and Australian.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 1963, 1965—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-06-08. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Grahame, Egan and Australian providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Grahame Egan”, the useful work is to connect “australian cricketer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q99895676. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941, 1963 and 1965.

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This entry incorporates text from “Grahame Egan” 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.