Arnold Byfield

Arnold Stanley "Bud" Byfield (1 November 1923 – 4 July 2015[1]) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket in the Sheffield Shield for Western Australia and Australian rules football with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Claremont in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

Born in Northam Byfield, known as "Bud", was a member of Claremont's 1940 premiership team, at the age of just 16.

In 1946 he joined the Melbourne Football Club in Victoria and played in the 1946 VFL Grand Final, which they lost to Essendon.

In six first-class cricket matches, Byfield made 251 runs at 27.88 and took two wickets at 21.50 with his medium pace bowling.

He made four appearances in the 1953/54 Sheffield Shield, including one against New South Wales when he dismissed both Ian Craig and Bob Simpson as well as scoring 36 in his first innings.