I was looking at some of the comments left by visitors to this blog and chanced upon this one. Seems like more than a few Aussie players (present and past) are of unique origins. By unique I mean non-South-African of course.
Moises Henriques is of Portuguese descent.
Theo Doropoulos is of Greek descent.
Michael Kasprowicz was Russian Polish (thanks for the correction Faran)
Andrew Symonds parents hailed from Jamaica.
Jason Krezja’s family had roots in Czech Republic.
Dirk Nannes is Dutch
anything else? Keep adding in the comments section.
courtesy Rajib, one commenter on this blog.
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Wasn’t Symonds born in England as well, Birmingham I think.
He couldn’t sound any more different to a Brummy!
Dean @ Cricket Betting Blog´s last [type] ..The commentators curse
usman khawaja(pakistani) n kasprowics isnt russian, is polish
thanks Faran. Updated the post…
Simon Katich’s paternal grandparents emigrated to Oz in the 1920s.
Hauritz is austrian
Katich a croat
Hilfenhaus german
Langer has german roots i believe