{{short description|Australian rules footballer and cricketer}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Cornelius Chamberlain | image = | country = Australia | fullname = Cornelius Thomas Chamberlain | birth_date = 20 December 1882<ref>{{cite web|title=Mitchelstown Baptism Registry|url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1882/02790/2024490.pdf|website=irishgenealogy.ie|accessdate=19 July 2017}}</ref> | birth_place = Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland | death_date = {{dda|1943|11|14|1882|12|20|df=y}} | death_place =Rose Park, South Australia<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48774536 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Advertiser |volume=LXXXVI |issue=26557 |location=Adelaide, South Australia |date=16 November 1943 |page=6}}</ref> | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = All-rounder | club1 = South Australia | year1 = {{nowrap|1905/06–1910/11}} | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 3 | runs1 = 31 | bat avg1 = 6.20 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 18 | deliveries1 = 102 | wickets1 = 1 | bowl avg1 = 74.00 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 1/59 | catches/stumpings1 = 0/– | date = 20 April | year = 2023 | source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/15/15851/15851.html }} '''Cornelius Thomas '''"'''Con'''"''' Chamberlain''' (20 December 1882 – 14 November 1943) was an Australian first-class cricketer who played for South Australia.
Chamberlain, who was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, made his first-class debut in the 1905/06 season. He appeared in two matches against Western Australia at the WACA Ground and Fremantle Oval. In the first he only bowled three of his team's 168 overs for the match yet batted at ten in both innings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/6/6934.html| title=Western Australia v South Australia f6812| publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> He wasn't called on to bowl at all in the second fixture in Fremantle but batted further up the order at seven.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/6/6936.html| title=Western Australia v South Australia f6814| publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> His third and final first-class match for his state didn't come until 1910/11, when South Australia hosted South Africa at the Adelaide Oval. During this match he took his only first-class wicket, that Louis Stricker, but not before the South African Test opener had made 146.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/8/8305.html| title=South Australia v South Africans| publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref>
He was also an Australian rules footballer for Norwood in the South Australian Football Association (SAFA), debuting in 1902.<ref>''The Advertiser'', "[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37200487 Versatile Jack Chamberlain]", 24 August 1923. p. 20</ref><ref>''The Advertiser'', "[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4866231 Football: North v South]", 4 August 1902. p. 9</ref> His brothers, Jack and Leonard, were also Norwood footballers and state cricketers.
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