Former Australian cricketer Arthur Morris passed away at the age of 93 on Saturday.
Morris represented Australia in 46 Tests, scoring 3,533 runs at an average of 46.48. He was part of the famed 1948 ‘Invincibles’ team and was considered by the late Don Bradman as “the best left-handed batsman he had ever seen.”
Morris was later inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame with Bill Woodfull in 2001. Among the various other honours that were bestowed upon him was his inclusion as the opener alongside South African legend Barry Richards in Bradman’s selection of his greatest team in Test history.
He was until his death the oldest living Australian Test cricketer and the third-oldest surviving Test cricketer. With Morris’s passing away, Neil Harvey remains the only living member of the ‘Invincibles’. Len Maddocks, on the other hand, is now Australia’s oldest living Test cricketer.
