David Renneberg
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| Full name | David Alexander Renneberg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 September 1942 Paddington, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 April 2025 (aged 82) Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 239) | 23 December 1966 v South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 19 January 1968 v India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Alexander Renneberg (23 September 1942 – 7 April 2025) was an Australian cricketer who played in eight Test matches from 1966 to 1968.[1]
Born to parents of German ancestry,[2] Renneberg was a tall fast bowler who played for New South Wales from 1964–65 to 1970–71. He toured South Africa in 1966–67 and England in 1968 with the Australian Test team. He played a season for Rawtenstall in the Lancashire League in 1969.[3]
Renneberg's best first-class bowling figures were 8 for 72 against Essex on the 1968 tour.[3] His best Test figures were 5 for 39 against India in the First Test of the 1967–68 series in Australia.[4] He had taken his best Sheffield Shield figures of 7 for 33 against Queensland a month earlier.[5]
Renneberg retired after 1970–71 season. He provided comments on ABC radio cricket broadcasts in Sydney from 1974 to 1986.[3]
He died on 7 April 2025 at the age of 82.[6][7]
References
- ^ David Renneberg, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-10-14. (subscription required)
- ^ "Test Cricketers with German Origins". footyalmanac.com.au.
- ^ a b c The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 446–47.
- ^ "Australia vs India, 1st Test at Adelaide, Dec 23 1967". Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
- ^ "New South Wales v Queensland 1967-68". Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
- ^ "Vale David Renneberg (1942 – 2025)". Cricket NSW. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ^ "Death notices". Retired & Former Police Association of NSW. Retrieved 12 April 2025.