Claude Floquet

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Claude Floquet South Africa (RSA)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	1	6
Runs scored	12	104
Batting average	12.00	26.00
100s/50s	0 / 0	0 / 0
Top score	11*	29
Balls bowled	48	348
Wickets	0	4
Bowling average	-	43.75
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	-	2 / 50
Catches/stumpings	0 / 0	2 / 0
Test debut: 26 February 1910 Last Test: 26 February 1910 Source: CricketArchive

Claude Eugene Floquet - An occasional player for Transvaal during the first decade of the 20th century, Claude Floquet was born in Aliwal North, Cape Colony, on November 3, 1884 and died in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province on November 22, 1963, aged 79. His first-class career of just six matches was spread over six seasons between 1904/05 and 1910/11. He batted right-handed in the middle to lower part of the order (although it was claimed he was an opening batsman) and he bowled medium pace occasionally. He appeared in a single Test match for South Africa, that being the third of the series against England on their visit of 1909/10. Played at the Old Wanderers Ground in Johannesburg, - as all Floquet’s first-class matches were, incidentally - Floquet scored 1 and 11 not out and took 0 for 24 with the ball. He toured Australia with South Africa the following season but did not play in any of the Test matches. His death in 1963 appeared to go unrecorded at the time and therefore no obituary appeared within Wisden for him. He was the younger brother of the Transvaal player, B.H. Floquet.

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World Cricketers - A Biographical Dictionary by Christopher Martin-Jenkins published by Oxford University Press (1996)
The Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Volume 1 (1877-1977) compiled and edited by Bill Frindall published by Headline Book Publishing (1995)
Who's Who of Cricketers by Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn & Peter Wynne-Thomas published by Hamlyn (1993)
www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players