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Anthony Zimbulis

cricketer (1918-1963)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ23035558
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Anthony George Zimbulis (11 February 1918 – 17 May 1963) was an Australian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and leg break, googly bowler. He played 15 first-class cricket matches for Western Australia between 1934 and 1940, scoring 320 runs and taking 43 wickets.

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“Anthony Zimbulis” enters the record as cricketer (1918-1963). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Anthony, Zimbulis 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—1918, 1963, 1934, 1940—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918-02-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Anthony, Zimbulis and cricketer.
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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 Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23035558. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918, 1963, 1934 and 1940.

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This entry incorporates text from Anthony Zimbulis” 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.