Norman Gordon out for 103

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TELFORD VICE, Cape Town


TEST cricket lost its oldest player on Tuesday when Norman Gordon, who earned all of his five caps for SA in the 1938-39 series against England, died 27 days after his 103rd birthday.


Brian Gordon, however, said goodbye to much more. “He was a wonderful man with a lovely sense of humour; he was very kind to everyone,” he said of his father on Tuesday.


So, Gordon in person did not match the persona of the big, bad fast swing bowler whose haul of 20 wickets in th...

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