{{short description|Australian rules footballer, born 1911}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Larry Cordner | image = Larry Cordner.png | country = | fullname = Laurence Osmaston Cordner | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1911|2|7}} | birth_place = Warrnambool, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1992|7|11|1911|2|7}} | death_place = Penshurst, Victoria | nickname = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Leg-break and googly | role = | club1 = Victoria | year1 = {{nowrap|1930/31–1933/34}} | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 3 | runs1 = 43 | bat avg1 = 14.33 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 30* | deliveries1 = 760 | wickets1 = 7 | bowl avg1 = 68.85 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 3/154 | catches/stumpings1 = 2/– | date = 31 December | year = 2014 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/11/11880/11880.html CricketArchive }} '''Laurence Osmaston Cordner''' (7 February 1911 – 11 July 1992) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football in the VFL with Hawthorn.
Cordner made just one VFL appearance for Hawthorn, against Collingwood at Glenferrie Oval during the 1933 season.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gigacz |first=Andrew |date=2021-04-05 |title=The one and only... Larry Cordner |url=https://australianfootball.com/articles/view/the+one+and+only...+larry+cordner/3923 |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=Australian Football}}</ref> His cousins were more successful, two of them Denis and Don, are members of the Melbourne Football Club Team of the Century. His half-brother Alan Cordner also played senior VFL football.
The first of Cordner's three first-class cricket matches came in the Sheffield Shield competition of 1930–31 against South Australia, with his only notable contribution being the wicket of Bert Tobin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/13/13751.html|title=Victoria v South Australia 1930/31| publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> Four weeks later, at the MCG, he was part of the Victorian team which played a tour match with the West Indians. He took five wickets in the match, including Lionel Birkett twice and a prized victim in George Headley.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1993-04-15 |title=Obituaries in 1992 |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/obituaries-in-1992-228731 |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=ESPNcricinfo |language=en}}</ref> Cordner then saved the game for Victoria with the bat by making 30 not out in the fourth innings as Victoria hung on with nine wickets down.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/13/13768.html|title=Victoria v West Indians 1930/31| publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> His final match came in 1934 against Western Australia.
==See also== * List of Australian rules football families
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{AFL Tables|ref=L/Larry_Cordner.html}} *{{cricinfo|id=4701}} *{{AustralianFootball|ref=larry%2Bcordner/5615}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cordner, Larry}} Category:1911 births Category:1992 deaths Category:Hawthorn Football Club players Category:Australian cricketers Category:Victoria cricketers Category:Melbourne Cricket Club cricketers Category:Cricketers from Victoria (state) Category:Australian rules footballers from Warrnambool Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
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