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Edward Arthur "Ted" Pickett, OAM (2 April 1909 – 29 January 2009) was a leading Australian sportsman of the twentieth century, playing representative cricket, Australian rules football, tennis, badminton, golf, billiards, snooker and athletics. He has been called "probably the greatest all-round sportsman Tasmania has produced".〔 Born in Ulverstone, Tasmania, Pickett was a leading sportsman while still at school, winning tennis's Pardey Shield, the most prestigious trophy in Tasmanian junior tennis, in 1926,〔''Tennis Australia'', "2007 Rio Tinto Aluminium Age Championships", http://www.tennisaustralia.com.au/pages/article.aspx?id=23&articleid=ArticleID200771995032&pageId=531&HandlerId=1 Accessed 14 February 2009〕 and representing Northern Tasmania in tennis.〔 ==Cricket== A wicket-keeper, Pickett began playing for Tamar Cricket Club in the Northern Tasmania Cricket Association alongside Laurie Nash.〔Wallish, p. 44〕 His skill behind the stumps led Pickett to his first-class debut for Tasmania aged nineteen on 19 February 1929 against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, scoring three runs and claiming two dismissals.〔''Cricket Archive'', Victoria v Tasmania in 1928/29, http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12965.html Accessed 18 February 2009〕 Pickett became Tasmania's first choice wicketkeeper but due to Tasmania not being a part of the Sheffield Shield, his first-class opportunities were limited and in six years played only eleven matches for Tasmania, scoring 86 runs at 7.16 and taking seven catches and five stumpings.〔''Cricket Archive'', "Ted Pickett", http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2/2672/2672.html Accessed 17 February 2009〕 However, Pickett is considered one of the best wicketkeepers to play for Tasmania with his stumping ability particularly impressive.〔Ferral, R. (1996) ''90 Years on: A Tasmanian Story : the Autobiography of Sir Raymond Ferrall'', Regal Publications, ISBN 0-949457-90-6〕 In a match against the 1930 Australian side en route to England, Pickett, who worked on the front counter of the ''Launceston Examiner'' newspaper, sought time off to play.〔 Pickett's boss agreed on the condition that the paper got a photo of Don Bradman batting while Pickett was keeping.〔''Canberra Times'', "Waugh to Visit", 4 March 2001, p. 95〕 Unfortunately for Pickett, Nash got Bradman out lbw for 22 before the ''Examiner's'' photographer arrived.〔 At lunch, Pickett approached Bradman and asked for a photograph. Bradman agreed to help out as long as he did not have to put his pads back on.〔 Bradman and Pickett strode out to the middle, Bradman took strike and Pickett crouched behind the stumps and a picture was taken, leaving Pickett to spend the next few weeks explaining to everyone that Bradman had not started a trend for batting without pads.〔Woolford, D. "How Bradman saved my bacon (or why the Don batted without pads)", ''Launceston Examiner'', 26 February 2001〕 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「Ted Pickett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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