Samuel Morris

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Sam Morris Australia (AUS)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	1	20
Runs scored	14	591
Batting average	14.00	17.90
100s/50s	0/0	0/5
Top score	10*	64*
Balls bowled	136	1806
Wickets	2	31
Bowling average	36.50	26.09
5 wickets in innings	0	1
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	2/73	5/21
Catches/stumpings	0/-	13/-
Test debut: 1 January 1885 Last Test: 1 January 1885 Source: Cricinfo

Samuel Morris (born June 22, 1855 in Hobart; died September 20, 1931 in Albert Park, Victoria) was an Australian cricketer who played in 1 Test in 1885. He was the first black man to represent Australia and, apart from Andrew Symonds, is the only player of West Indian heritage to do so.

Morris was one of nine Australian Test players to make his debut in the Second Test of the 1884-85 series against England. Selectors were forced to choose an entirely new team after the eleven of the First Test refused to play over a dispute concerning payment of players. Morris took two wickets in the match, including English captain Arthur Shrewsbury, and made just fourteen runs (4 as an opener in the first innings, 10 not out in the second batting at number ten) as Australia lost by ten wickets.

His parents were West Indian and had traveled to Australia in the gold-rush years of the 1840s. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1855, but played his club cricket in Victoria for Melbourne's St Kilda club where he later became the groundsman before suffering from blindness in his later years.