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Raymond Clarence "Slug" Jordon (17 February 1937 – 13 August 2012) was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria in the Sheffield Shield and toured with the Australian national cricket team. He was also a successful Australian rules football coach and acted as both reserves and under-19s coach at various clubs in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Universally known as "Slug", his nickname arose as a result of an incident during his National Service at Puckapunyal.〔(Never a punch pulled )〕 ==Career== Jordon took a total of 230 dismissals in the Sheffield Shield and 283 for all first-class matches. His tally at both Shield and first-class level remained a Victorian record until surpassed by his replacement Richie Robinson, who himself was later bettered by Darren Berry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Most Victims in a Career for Victoria )〕 In 1970/71 he managed a career best ten dismissals in a match against South Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Victoria v South Australia 1970/71 )〕 His only first-class hundred was an innings of 134, also against South Australia, in the 1963/64 Sheffield Shield. The South Australian bowling attack was led by Gary Sobers and while he ran through Victoria's batting lineup with six second innings wickets, Jordon resisted with a century before falling LBW to Neil Hawke.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=South Australia v Victoria 1963/64 )〕 The wicket-keeper captained Victoria in five Sheffield Shield matches during his career, three of them in the 1968/69 season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Sheffield Shield 1968/69 )〕 Jordon came close to playing Test cricket, touring both India and South Africa in 1969/70 as a standby for Brian Taber. Although he appeared in four of Australia's first-class warm up matches in India and six in South Africa, Jordon was not required for any of the Tests.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Australia in South Africa 1969/70 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Australia in India 1969/70 )〕 According to Ashley Mallett's biography of Ian Chappell, ''Chappelli Speaks Out'', Bill Lawry was considering selecting Jordon to play in the fourth test instead of Taber because of the former's superior batting. Chappell said he would not play in the side if Jordon was picked because the wicketkeeper was a cheat. This was based on an incident during a game on the recent Indian tour when Australia was playing South Zone.〔(South Zone v Australia Bangalore 20–22 December 1969 (3-day match) )〕 E. A. S. Prasanna was facing Alan Connolly with Jordon standing up to the stumps – he appeared to miss the ball and his off stump was knocked forward. Jordon appealed and Prasanna eventually walked but Chappell believed the ball had missed Prasanna's stumps and rebounded off Jordon's pads to break the wicket – and that Jordon knew this.〔Ashley Mallett, ''Chappelli Speaks Out'', Allen and Unwin, 2005 p 38, 50〕 Jordon played his district cricket for Richmond (one season), Carlton (ten seasons) and Fitzroy (five seasons).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VCA 1st XI Career records 1889-90 to 2014-15, I-M )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ray Jordon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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