Paul Nicholls (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: East Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
About Paul Nicholls (sportsman)
- Paul Allen Nicholls (10 November 1946 – 17 January 2009) was an Australian sportsman who represented Western Australia at first-class cricket during the 1970s and played Australian rules football with the East Fremantle Football Club. Nicholls, a right-arm offspinner, started his career in the 1971/72 Sheffield Shield season and featured in the Western Australian side for much of the following two competitions.
- He then spent over four years out of the team before returning in 1977/78, but re-cement his place as the state's premier spinner.He claimed eight wickets on his first-class debut, against South Australia at the Adelaide Oval, including a five wicket haul in the second innings.
- Despite his efforts, Western Australia lost the match by 25 runs.
- Amongst his victims in first-class cricket were the Pakistani pair of Zaheer Abbas and Mushtaq Mohammad, whom he dismissed in a tour match for Western Australia against the touring nation.
- In all he was part of three successful Sheffield Shield campaigns. Nicholls spent the 1972 and 1973 English summers playing for the Haslingden Cricket Club in the Lancashire League.Nicholls was also a good Australian rules footballer and played for East Fremantle in the Western Australian Football League.
- He holds a place in the club's history for his performance in the 1974 WAFL Grand Final where he kicked four goals from full-forward to help East Fremantle defeat Perth.Later in his life, Nicholls was a successful magistrate in Western Australia before he died of cancer in 2009.
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