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| Medallions and badges of the RAAF cricket
team of the 1940s. |
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| Steve Waugh is not the only cricket
connection AMP brings to the Sanmar joint venture. Ron
Meyer, father of Graham Meyer, Managing Director of AMP
Sanmar, played cricket in the 1940s, surprisingly quite
a bit of it in Madras! We found his name among the Europeans
who played against the Indians in the Presidency Match
of 1944, at Chepauk, prominently displayed on a board
in the Madras Cricket Club bar. In that match, Ron Meyer
made 23 runs in the only innings he played, before being
dismissed by off spinner Parankusam. |
| Meyer came to Madras as an officer of
the Royal Australian Air Force and was admitted as a member
of the Madras Cricket Club, along with a number of other
young officers, on 6th October 1944. For the next two
years, Meyer played for the club. |
| Members of the RAAF also toured India,
in 1945, and some of them were included in the Australian
Services XI that played one ‘Test’ match and one first
class game against South Zone at Chepauk, Madras. Lindsay
Hassett led that team, which also included Keith Miller,
the charismatic all rounder. |
| The RAAF insignia and medallions displayed
here are from Graham Meyer’s personal collection. |
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