Lindsay Kline

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Lindsay Kline Australia (AUS)

Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling type	Slow left-arm chinaman
	Tests	First-class
Matches	13	88
Runs scored	58	559
Batting average	8.28	8.59
100s/50s	0/0	0/0
Top score	15*	37*
Balls bowled	2373
Wickets	34	276
Bowling average	22.82	27.39
5 wickets in innings	1	11
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	7/75	7/75
Catches/stumpings	9/0	56/0
Test debut: 23 December 1957 Last Test: 27 January 1961 Source: [1]

Lindsay Francis Kline (born September 29, 1934 in Melbourne, Victoria) is former Australian and Victorian cricketer. He played in 13 Tests for Australia and 88 first-class matches between 1955/56 and 1961/1962. He was a left hand spin bowler, bowling left-arm unorthodox spin (or chinaman).

Kline is probably best remembered for facing the last ball bowled of the last over off Wes Hall in the Tied Test between Australia and West Indies in Brisbane in 1960. Kline is also one of the few cricketers to have bowled a hat-trick in Test cricket which he did in Cape Town in 1957/58 in his 2nd Test.

In the 2nd Test in Lahore in 1959/60 he took 7 wickets for 75 in the 2nd innings. Despite playing well in India and Pakistan, his form dropped at home and was not named in the 1961 tour to England.