| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | - | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | South African | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | First-class | ||
| Matches | 1 | 9 | ||
| Runs scored | 6 | 346 | ||
| Batting average | 3.00 | 23.06 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 1/1 | ||
| Top score | 6 | 108 | ||
| Balls bowled | - | - | ||
| Wickets | - | - | ||
| Bowling average | - | - | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | - | ||
| Best bowling | - | - | ||
| Catches/stumpings | -/- | 13/2 | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, | ||||
| Full name | Alfred Heatlie | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | February 12, 1867 | ||
| Place of birth | Grahamstown, South Africa | ||
| Date of death | September 1, 1904 (aged 36) | ||
| Rugby union career | |||
| Playing career | |||
| Position | Inside centre Fly-half |
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| Provincial/State sides | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| Western Province | |||
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1891 | South Africa | 3 | |
| correct as of 15 October 2007. | |||
Alfred Renfrew Richards (14 December 1867 – 9 January 1904), was an South African sportsman who represented his country at Test cricket and rugby union. He was capped three times for South Africa in rugby, including captaining them once and made one Test cricket appearance.
Richards was born in Grahamstown, Cape Colony. He played for Western Province in some of the earliest provincial matches in South Africa, and in 1893-94, his 108 was the highest score as his team beat Natal to win the Currie Cup.
His next first-class match was against "Lord Hawke's XI" in 1895-96 and his 58, scored out of a total of 122, won him selection for the third representative match of the series, retrospectively accorded Test match status. Richards captained the side, but scored only 6 and 0 as South Africa lost by an innings and 33 runs. He never played first-class cricket again.
Richards made his international rugby debut for South Africa in 1891, the year that the British Isles rugby team came to South Africa for the very first time. He made his debut on July 30 in Port Elizabeth. South Africa were outscored three tries to nil, and Great Britain won the match 4 points to nil. He was capped again on August 29 in Kimberley, which Great Britain also won, 3 to nil.
On September 5, he was chosen as the captain to lead South Africa out against Great Britain once again, in Cape Town at Newlands. The tourists also won the match, four points to nil. Richards did not play for South Africa again after the tour. Richards did however referee one match in 1896, when Britain returned, at Newlands, which South Africa won five points to nil. He died in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1904.
Richards' older brothers, Dicky and Joseph, also played for Western Province and Dicky appeared in one Test match in 1888-89.
He died at Harare, Zimbabwe (then Salisbury, Rhodesia).