Arthur Morris

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Arthur Morris Australia (AUS)
Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling type	Slow left-arm chinaman (SLC)
	Tests	First-class
Matches	46	162
Runs scored	3533	12614
Batting average	46.48	53.67
100s/50s	12/12	46/46
Top score	206	290
Balls bowled	111	718
Wickets	2	12
Bowling average	25.00	49.33
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	1/5	3/36
Catches/stumpings	15/0	73/0
Test debut: 29 November 1946 Last Test: 17 June 1955 Source: [1]

Arthur Robert Morris (born January 19, 1922 in Bondi, Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played 46 Test matches and was a member of Don Bradman's Invincibles of 1948.

Morris debuted against England in the 1946/47 Ashes series, and scored three hundreds during the series. His Test career spanned a decade until he retired in 1956. He was an opening batsman of note and retired with a very good batting average of 46.48 with 12 hundreds. He recorded his highest ever Test score of 206 in 1951. He also had an outstanding first-class record, scoring 12614 runs, including 46 hundreds, at an average of 53.67

Arthur Morris's claim to fame is that he was at the other end of the crease in 1948, when Don Bradman famously got dismissed for a duck in his last-ever Test innings. In an often-unnoticed fact, Morris scored 196 in that innings.

[edit] See also

• Cricinfo article on Arthur Morris

Persondata
NAME	Morris, Arthur Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bondi, New South Wales
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH