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Full name | Alfred Edward Johns | ||||||||||||||
Born | Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia | 22 January 1868||||||||||||||
Died | 13 February 1934 Melbourne, Australia | (aged 66)||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
Relations | Peter Johns (father) | ||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1894–95 to 1898–99 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
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Source:
Cricinfo |
Alfred Edward Johns (22 January 1868 – 13 February 1934) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Australia and Victoria between 1895 and 1899. [1]
Born in Hawthorn, Melbourne, he was one of eight children of Elizabeth (née Tudor) and Peter Johns, founder of the lift manufacturing firm Johns & Waygood. [2] After attending Wesley College in Melbourne he studied law and practised as a lawyer in Melbourne. He gave up the law in 1899 when his father died, and succeeded his father as director of Johns & Waygood. [3] Johns died in 1934 in Melbourne, aged 66.
Johns made his first-class debut for Victoria in a match against the touring English team in March 1895. [4] A wicket-keeper and left-handed batsman, he toured with the Australian national team to England twice, in 1896 and 1899, without playing in a Test Match. [5] Unusually for an Australian player, over half of Johns' first-class matches were played in England rather than Australia. [5]
Johns returned early from the 1899 tour of England when his father died, and retired from cricket immediately. Tom Horan wrote at the time that Johns was the best wicket-keeper Australia had ever had, apart from Jack Blackham. [6]