Allan Edwards (Australian cricketer)

Allan Robert Edwards (24 December 1921 – 30 May 2019) was an Australian cricketer.

[1] At Christian Brothers' College, Perth, Edwards was a champion schoolboy cricketer, scoring five centuries in consecutive innings in 1940.

[3] When Western Australia was admitted to the Sheffield Shield in 1947/48 he opened the team's first innings and scored 105 in the second match against Victoria, adding 190 for the second wicket with George Robinson.

[4] He was the first batsman to score a century in each innings of a match for Western Australia, which he did against Queensland in 1950/51.

[5] Western Australia won the Sheffield Shield 10 times during the 21 seasons of his chairmanship.