| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Left-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Slow left-arm chinaman | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | Australian | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | 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 | ||
| Source: [1], | ||||
Lindsay Francis Kline (born 29 September 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. He was in the touring party to England in 1961 but did not play in any of the Test matches.