John Cordner (sportsman), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian rules footballer and cricketer
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Place of Birth: Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
About John Cordner (sportsman)
- John Pruen Cordner (20 March 1929 – 10 December 2016) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with Melbourne. Born in Diamond Creek, Victoria, Cordner came from a famous Australian rules football family with three brothers, Don, Denis and Ted all having noted careers for the Melbourne Football Club.
- John spent just one season with Melbourne, in 1951, and played six VFL games. Unlike his brothers, John excelled at cricket and made his first-class debut for Victoria in the 1951/52 Sheffield Shield season.
- Playing against Queensland at Brisbane he dismissed both openers, Leyland Sanders and Wally Grout, with his left-arm fast-medium bowling to finish with figures of 2 for 37 in the first innings.Despite playing another three first-class matches he only managed to take one further wicket.
- The last of those matches was for English side Warwickshire when they took on the touring Indian cricket team.
- He was in England at the time studying nuclear science.He died in December 2016.
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