Profile details
- Born
- 2 Apr 1909
- Birthplace
- Ulverstone
- Country
- Australia
- Sport
- Cricket
- Discipline
- Team
- Category
- Men
- Status
- Active
District, height, weight, playing style, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
Honours & Awards
- ▸Medal of the Order of Australia
Statistics
About
Edward Arthur 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, and representing Northern Tasmania in tennis.
Biography adapted from Ted Pickett on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.