Hartley Samuel Craig is a former Australian cricketer

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, born in Prospect

Prospect, South Australia

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, Adelaide.

Craig played a number of minor matches in 1945 for the Royal Australian Air Force

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 cricket team, but his only first-class

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 appearance came at the end of that summer when he played for the Dominions

Dominions cricket team

A Dominions cricket team, representing the Dominions of the British Empire, played seven cricket matches, all in England during wartime. Only once did the team play at first-class level, when it played against England at Lord's in late August 1945...

 against England

English cricket team

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 at Lord's

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. Opening the batting he scored 56 and 32.

His brother Reginald had a rather longer first-class career, playing 31 times for South Australia.

External links

• Statistical summary from CricketArchive
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