Alfred McGaw, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlfred McGaw
cricketer
Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1900
Place of Birth: Haslemere, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 08-Feb-1984
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Alfred McGaw
- Lt.-Col.
- Alfred Joseph Thoburn McGaw (1 April 1900 – 8 February 1984) was an English cricketer and British Army officer.
- McGaw was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg spin.
- The son of John McGaw and Pauline Tate, he was born at Haslemere, Surrey, and was educated at Charterhouse School.McGaw made his first-class debut in cricket for Sussex against Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1928.
- He made a second first-class appearance in that season for Sussex, in the return fixture between the teams at the County Ground, Hove.
- In June 1930, while serving in the British Raj, McGaw made a further first-class appearance for a Punjab Governor's XI against the Muslims.
- The following year, back in England, McGaw made two first-class appearances for the Army against Oxford University and the Royal Air Force.
- In that same season he also made a single first-class appearance for the Combined Services against the touring New Zealanders, which saw McGaw make his only first-class half century, with a score of 52.
- He made a final first-class appearance for the Army in 1932, against the touring South Americans.
- In his total of seven first-class matches, he scored 170 runs at an average of 17.00, while with the ball he took 8 wickets at a bowling average of 34.25, with best figures of 4/17.He was married to Sylvia Inez Pakenham Johnstone, with the couple having one daughter, Anne, though Anne died in a car crash in 1974.
- He then later married a German, named Lisalotta Steiner.
- They conceived a son, John Joseph McGaw.
- McGaw lived out his final days at Saint Helier in Jersey, dying in hospital there on 8 February 1984.
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