Today in History: Former South African cricketer Louis Stricker dies
Altogether he played in 13 Tests for South Africa and scored 342 runs at an average of 14,25.
On this day in 1960, Louis Anthony Stricker, a former South African Test batsman, died in Rondebosch at the age of 75.
He was born in Kimberley on 26 May 1884, and played as an opening bat for Transvaal and took part in 13 Tests for South Africa against England and Australia between 1909 and 1912, but he failed to reach fifty in any of them. For Transvaal against HDG Leveson-Gower’s MCC team in 1910, Stricker (101) and JW Zulch (176) scored 215 together in two hours and 20 minutes, which then constituted a record for the first wicket against a touring side in South Africa.
He played in four of his Tests against England that season, and was a member of the South African side in Australia in 1910–11. In his first match on Australian soil, against South Australia at Adelaide, he scored 146 in a first class match, and repeated this score in a minor match later on.
He visited England for first class cricket in 1912, when he took part in the Triangular Tournament, but he had only a moderate tour, his highest score being 99 against Hampshire at Bournemouth.
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