Sam Trimble

Samuel Christy Trimble, MBE (16 August 1934 – 29 July 2019) was an Australian first-class cricketer who played for Queensland between 1959–60 and 1975–76.

Trimble began his career in New South Wales, but unable to break into the state team he moved to Queensland.

He also captained the Australian team that toured New Zealand in 1969–70 when the Test team was in South Africa; he scored 213 not out in the unofficial Third Test in Wellington, batting for eight hours in difficult conditions in an Australian total of 353.

[1] In 1970–71, he scored 177 against an MCC attack which included John Snow, Derek Underwood, Ray Illingworth and Peter Lever.

Trimble was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1975 Birthday Honours for services to cricket,[4] and received the Australian Sports Medal in 2000.