we're a happy team

I had a piece already to go on Geelong test cricketers after their back to back premierships in the AFL.

Not really, but I was going to write one called test cats.

But Geelong lost the grand final.

So that piece has been changed to test hawks, not really.

Anyway very few Hawthorn cricketers have ever placed cricket for Australia, probably too busy going to private schools and playing soggy biscuit.

But the great Bob Cowper, he of the triple hundred, played for Hawthorn-East Melbourne Club.

And he was pretty damn good.

I could only find 3 more.

Edgar Mayne an opening batsmen who played when Australia had heaps of them, 4 tests. 

Ben Barrett a wicketkeeper with a pretty handy first class record, 4 tests. 

And Keith Rigg a batsman who played 8 tests. 

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