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Full name Neil James Napier Hawke
Born June 27, 1939, Cheltenham, Adelaide, South Australia
Died December 25, 2000, North Adelaide, South Australia (aged 61 years 181 days)
Major teams Australia,South Australia,Tasmania,Western Australia
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
27
37
15
365
45*
16.59
0
0
0
9
0
First-class
145
198
57
3383
141*
23.99
1
11
85
0
List A
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
27
50
6974
2677
91
7/105
10/115
29.41
2.30
76.6
2
6
1
First-class
145
12088
458
8/61
26.39
23
5
List A
1
36
32
0
-
-
-
5.33
-
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 15-20, 1963 scorecard
Last Test
England v Australia at Lord's, Jun 20-25, 1968 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1959/60 - 1969
List A span
1964 - 1964
Profile
Neil Hawke played for three Australian states, for two Lancashire League clubs, and in every Test nation, and never lost his unquenchable enthusiasm for the game. Built for work, he had an ungainly asymmetrical action, but moved the ball late, bowled a well-disguised slower ball, was seldom collared and never demoralised: his best innings figures (7 for 105) and match figures (10 for 115) both arose during heavy Australian defeats. Hawke was a first-rate Australian Rules footballer, and injuries from that sport handicapped him in the second half of his career, while in later years he suffered acutely from illness. He finally lost his 20-year battle against various ailments on Christmas Day, 2000. But his lust for cricket, and for life, emerges in his autobiography Bowled Over, one of the frankest Australian cricketing memoirs.
Gideon Haigh
