Faith Thomas
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22 February 1933 Nepabunna, South Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right hand bat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test | 21 February 1958 v England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1956-1958 | South Australia Women's cricket team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricInfo, 5 March 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faith Thomas, née Coulthard (born 22 January 1933) is an Australian former cricketer and hockey player. She was also a nurse in regional South Australia.
Early life
Thomas was born at the Nepabunna Aboriginal Mission in South Australia. Her mother, Ivy, was a traditional Adnyamathanha woman and her father German. Her mother took her to the Colebrook Home for Aboriginal Children in Quorn when she was a baby.[1][2]
Cricket career
After being introduced to cricket by a colleague at Royal Adelaide Hospital, she soon made the state women's team. She played for the South Australia Women's cricket team between 1956 and 1958.
In 1958 she was selected for the Australian national team.[3] She played her only international match against England. [1][4][5] She was the first Aboriginal woman to be selected to represent Australia in sport.[6]
References
- 1 2 "message stick - Faith Thomas". ABC TV (Australia). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ↑ Thomas, Faith (1990), From the shoulder, retrieved 9 November 2016
- ↑ "Aborigines meet over sport grants". The Canberra Times. 45, (12,675). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 5 December 1970. p. 38. Retrieved 9 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Faith Coulthard". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
- ↑ Whimpress, Bernard (1992), Few and far between : prejudice and discrimination among Aborigines in Australian first class cricket 1869-1988, retrieved 9 November 2016
- ↑ Booth, Andrea; Briscoe, Luke. "20 inspiring black women who have changed Australia". NITV. Retrieved 9 November 2016.