Col Westaway

Col Westaway
Personal information
Full name
Colin Edward Westaway
Born(1936-08-27)27 August 1936
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died15 October 2015(2015-10-15) (aged 79)
Moggill, Queensland, Australia
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm leg-spin
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1957/58–1963/64Queensland
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 19
Runs scored 207
Batting average 13.80
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 33
Balls bowled 2,949
Wickets 52
Bowling average 32.75
5 wickets in innings 2
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 6/88
Catches/stumpings 20/–
Source: Cricinfo, 30 June 2024

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.

References

  1. 1 2 "Col Westaway". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Torrens W (1979) Queensland Cricketers 1892–1979, p. 22. Retford: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 11 May 2025.)
  3. ↑ "Queensland v New South Wales 1960-61". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  4. 1 2 Col Westaway, CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 May 2025. (subscription required)
  5. 1 2 Logan, Lloyd. "Col Westaway, Queensland Leggie". Retrieved 30 June 2024 – via YouTube.
  6. 1 2 Westaway, Colin Edward, Obituaries in 2015, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 2016. (Available online at CricInfo. Retrieved 20 May 2025.)