Ken Eastwood

Ken Eastwood

Personal information
Full name	Kenneth Humphrey Eastwood
Born	(1935-11-23) 23 November 1935 Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Slow left-arm wrist-spin
International information
National side	Australia
Only Test (cap 256)	12 February 1971 v England
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1959/60–1971/72	Victoria
Career statistics
Competition Test FC LA Matches 1 42 4 Runs scored 5 2,722 139 Batting average 2.50 41.87 34.75 100s/50s 0/0 9/8 0/1 Top score 5 221 69 Balls bowled 40 616 0 Wickets 1 6 – Bowling average 21.00 63.83 – 5 wickets in innings 0 0 – 10 wickets in match 0 0 – Best bowling 1/21 1/10 – Catches/stumpings 0/– 27/– 2/–
Source: Cricinfo, 15 July 2020

Kenneth Humphrey Eastwood (born 23 November 1935) is a former Australian cricketer who played one Test in 1971. A left-handed opening batsman, Ken Eastwood played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1959–60 to 1971–72. In 1969–70, when Victoria won the Sheffield Shield, he was their leading batsman, with 584 runs at an average of 41.71. In the 1970-71 Sheffield Shield, he scored 737 runs at an average of 122.83, with three centuries and a top score of 221. Eastwood replaced Bill Lawry in the Test team for the final match of the series against England in 1970-71, although Lawry had been the Test captain since 1968. Eastwood failed with the bat, scoring five and a duck, but took one wicket, that of Keith Fletcher, with his left-arm unorthodox spin. In a booklet about Eastwood produced by the Australian Cricket Society, it was revealed that although Eastwood played only one Test, he ended up with two caps. He was given two caps to try for size, and no one ever asked him to return the unused one.

See also

• One Test Wonder

External links

• Ken Eastwood at ESPNcricinfo
• "One Test, Two Caps" by Brydon Coverdale