Anthony Douglas Jose (17 February 1929 – 3 February 1972), known as Tony Jose, was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for South Australia, Kent, Oxford University and Free Foresters between 1948 and 1953.
[1] The second son of Gilbert Jose, who also played first-class cricket for South Australia,[2] and Hazel (nee Brook), who died in 1930,[3] Jose was born in Adelaide, South Australia and attended Adelaide's St Peter's College, where he was dux in 1945 and captain in 1946.
[4] He made his senior district cricket debut for Adelaide University Cricket Club in November 1947 and his debut for South Australia came two months later, aged 18, on 9 January 1948[2] against New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground, opening the bowling and taking 2/76 and 2/33, including the wickets of Test players Arthur Morris and Sid Barnes.
[6] Jose was praised for his debut performance, with onlookers noting that he gave "the ball a disconcertedly late swing" and the Sydney Daily Telegraph thought him to be a Test possibility.
[10] Jose worked as a cardiologist in Sydney and Los Angeles, [11] where he committed suicide in 1972, aged 42.