John Cordner (sportsman)

John Cordner (sportsman)

John Pruen Cordner (born 20 March 1929 in Diamond Creek, Victoria) is a former Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football in the VFL with Melbourne.

Cordner comes from a famous Australian rules football family with three brothers, Denis, Don and Ted all having noted careers for the Melbourne Football Club. John spent just one season with Melbourne, in 1951, and played six VFL games.

Unlike his brothers, John excelled at cricket and made his first-class debut for Victoria in the 1951/52 Sheffield Shield season. Playing against Queensland at Brisbane he dismissed both openers with his left-arm fast-medium bowling, one of them Wally Grout, to finish with figures of 2 for 37 in the first innings. [cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/20/20088.html|title=Queensland v Victoria 1951/52| publisher=CricketArchive]

Despite playing another three first-class matches he only managed to take one further wicket. The last of those matches was for English side Warwickshire when they took on the touring Indian cricket team. He was in England at the time studying nuclear science. [cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/20/20363.html|title=Warwickshire v Indians 1952| publisher=CricketArchive]

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