Grahame Lawrence Cruickshanks (2 March 1913–8 September 1941) was a South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. A left-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper

Wicket-keeper

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, he played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 for Eastern Province

Eastern Province cricket team

Eastern Province cricket team is the team representing the Eastern Province in domestic first-class cricket in South Africa.-Honours:* Currie Cup - 1988–89, 1991–92; shared - 1989–90* Standard Bank Cup - 1989–90, 1991–92...

 and also represented the Egypt national cricket team

Egypt national cricket team

The Egypt national cricket team was the team that represented the country of Egypt in international cricket matches. They were active from 1909 until World War II.-Early years:...

 in five matches in the mid 1930s.

Biography

Grahame Cruickshanks was born in Port Elizabeth in 1913, the younger brother of Clive Cruickshanks, who would also play cricket for Eastern Province.

Cruickshanks played his only two first-class matches in December 1931, playing for Eastern Province in Currie Cup

SuperSport Series

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 matches against Natal

KwaZulu Natal cricket team

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 and Orange Free State. He played five times for Egypt against HM Martineau's XI

Hubert Martineau

Hubert Melville Martineau was an English patron of cricket and organiser of his own team. He also played three first-class matches between 1931 and 1932...

 between 1935 and 1938. He died in Berlin

Berlin

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in 1941, aged 28.