Charles Fichardt

Charles Gustav Fichardt (20 March 1870 – 30 May 1923) was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1892 and 1896.

Charles Fichardt was educated at Grey College, Bloemfontein, and later in Scotland and at Hamburg.

[2] A vigorous batsman and lob bowler, he represented Orange Free State from 1892 to 1909.

[4] When the next English team visited in 1895–96 he took 6 for 93 in their first innings when they played Orange Free State.

[8] At the Imperial Press Conference in 1909 he declared that the actions of the British had now reconciled him to the place of Orange Free State in the British Empire: Then came a day, a wonderful day, when the conqueror with open hand approached us, holding out to us freely that inestimable thing for which we had fought – that liberty for which so many of us had died – and from that moment, I think, we were really conquered, we joined hands with you, and if ever need arises there will speak for England on the wild and lonely veldt the unerring rifle of the Boer.