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Full name | Charles Valentine Holten | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Brighton, Victoria, Australia | 15 September 1927||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 January 2015 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | (aged 87)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1950/51–1952/53 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CricInfo, 30 August 2022 |
Charles Valentine "Val" Holten (15 September 1927 – 14 January 2015) was an Australian cricketer who played five first class cricket matches for Victoria between 1950–51 and 1952–53. Born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, Holten was a right hand batsman and right arm medium pace bowler who bowled inswingers. [1] [2] He was considered "one of the State's most useful cricketers." [3]
Holten attended Hailebury College and Melbourne Grammar, [4] and first played District cricket with Melbourne Cricket Club in 1947–48. After two seasons with Melbourne, he moved to Prahran Cricket Club where he played another eight seasons; topping the District cricket averages in his first season and five seasons later topping the aggregate. [5]
Holten later joined the Sub-District club of Malvern. A dispute over coaching fees five seasons later saw him move to sub-district rivals Oakleigh. Highly successful at sub-district level, Holten was made an inaugural member of the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association (VSDCA) Hall of Fame in 2007 and in 2014 was appointed a Legend of the VSDCA. [6] [7]
He married Dorothy Porter in 1952. [8] He died at Melbourne in 2015 aged 87. [9] [10] [11] [12]
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Full name | Charles Valentine Holten | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Brighton, Victoria, Australia | 15 September 1927||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 January 2015 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | (aged 87)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1950/51–1952/53 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:
CricInfo, 30 August 2022 |
Charles Valentine "Val" Holten (15 September 1927 – 14 January 2015) was an Australian cricketer who played five first class cricket matches for Victoria between 1950–51 and 1952–53. Born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, Holten was a right hand batsman and right arm medium pace bowler who bowled inswingers. [1] [2] He was considered "one of the State's most useful cricketers." [3]
Holten attended Hailebury College and Melbourne Grammar, [4] and first played District cricket with Melbourne Cricket Club in 1947–48. After two seasons with Melbourne, he moved to Prahran Cricket Club where he played another eight seasons; topping the District cricket averages in his first season and five seasons later topping the aggregate. [5]
Holten later joined the Sub-District club of Malvern. A dispute over coaching fees five seasons later saw him move to sub-district rivals Oakleigh. Highly successful at sub-district level, Holten was made an inaugural member of the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association (VSDCA) Hall of Fame in 2007 and in 2014 was appointed a Legend of the VSDCA. [6] [7]
He married Dorothy Porter in 1952. [8] He died at Melbourne in 2015 aged 87. [9] [10] [11] [12]