William Caffyn

Caffyn was a genuine all-rounder: a middle-order right-handed batsman and an effective right-arm medium-fast roundarm bowler.

[3] Caffyn was instrumental in the early development of Australian cricket and the establishment of Anglo-Australian competition.

After a period in Melbourne, he moved to Sydney, where he started a hairdressing business with his wife and coached at the Warwick Club.

In his book Seventy-one Not Out he wrote: Caffyn has the distinction of bowling the first ball in the first match between a team from England and one from Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The match took place on New Year's Day 1862, and saw his visiting England XI up against a Victorian XVIII.

Arlott wrote: "...despite its literary limitations, Seventy-one Not out is an essential book for anyone who wants to understand the history of cricket.