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Col Westaway

Died
October 15, 2015
Age
79 years

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Col Westaway, 79, Australian cricketer.

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Colin Edward Westaway (27 August 1936 – 15 October 2015) was an Australian cricketer. He played 19 first-class matches for Queensland between the 1957–58 and 1963–64 seasons.

Born at Brisbane, Westaway was a leg-spin bowler and tail-end batsman who played for Western Suburbs Cricket Club in the city. He achieved his best bowling figures of 6 for 88 and his highest score of 33 in the same match, the opening match of the 1960–61 Sheffield Shield, against New South Wales in Brisbane. Illness ended his first-class career after the 1963–64 season, although in his Wisden obituary the almanack considered that he had been "poorly treated by Queensland's selectors" when he was not selected after the 1963–64 season.

Westaway died at the Wesley Hospital at Auchenflower in Brisbane in 2015. He was aged 79. A cricket ground in the Brisbane suburb of Moggill is named the Col Westaway Oval in his honour. His family had owned a pineapple farm at Moggill.

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