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Eric Bensted
cricketer
- January 11, 1901 · Killarney
- March 24, 1980 · Brisbane
- 79 years
About Eric Bensted
Eric Bensted was a cricketer. Born in 1901, Bensted died in 1980 at the age of 79 in Brisbane.
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|Eric Charles Bensted (11 February 1901 – 24 March 1980) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Queensland from 1923 to 1936.
Bensted, an all-rounder, was the first Queensland player to play in 50 Sheffield Shield matches. His highest score was 155 against New South Wales in 1934-35, when he and Cassie Andrews added 335 in 239 minutes for the seventh wicket after Queensland were 6 for 113. They set an Australian seventh-wicket record that stood until 2014.
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