Leyland Sanders
Cricket Player
1927 – 2005
Who was Leyland Sanders?
Leyland Arthur "Ley" Sanders was an Australian sportsman who represented Queensland in both Australian rules football and Sheffield Shield cricket.
Sanders had a quick rise in Queensland football, becoming a regular interstate player after his first representative match in 1946. Although mainly a backman, Sanders was often used with success as a forward. He was club captain of Queensland Australian National Football League club Yeronga and then of Coorparoo-Yeronga, a merged outfit which competed in the 1953 and 1954 seasons. He won The Courier-Mail Best and Fairest Cup in 1954.
He started his cricket career as a wicket-keeper and had been a promising junior cricketer, captaining the Queensland Colts in 1949 and 1950. With Queenslander Don Tallon keeping wicket for Australia and future Test player Wally Grout the new state gloveman, Sanders was at best the third choice wicket-keeper for Queensland. As a result he gave up the glovework and tried to get state selection as a specialist batsman.
It was as an opening batsman that Sanders was most often used by Queensland.
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