Jim Burke (cricketer)
James Wallace Burke (12 June 1930, Mosman, New South Wales - 2 February 1979, Manly, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played in 24 Tests from 1951 to 1959. Burke still holds the record for the most innings in a complete career without scoring a duck, with 44.
Read more about Jim Burke (cricketer): Early Years, First-class Debut, International Debut in 1950–51, Test Omission, Lancashire League and Recall, Wisden Cricketer of The Year and 1956 Tour of England, Later Career, International Swansong, Style and Personality
Famous quotes containing the words jim and/or burke:
“Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)
“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)