Hughie Carroll

Eugene Vincent " Hughie" Carroll (17 January 1885–18 September 1965) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Victoria between 1905–06 and 1923–24. A specialist right-hand batsman, Carroll was born and raised in South Melbourne, and joined the local South Melbourne Cricket Club as a youth. He had a long association with South, and during the 1930s he coached the future Australian cricket captains Lindsay Hassett and Ian Johnson, as well as Australia's greatest all-rounder, Keith Miller. In total, Carroll played 37 first-class matches (most of them before World War I) for the modest return of 1,706 runs at an average of 26.24. His only century was 112 against South Australia at Adelaide Oval in November 1906, batting at number six.^[1] He died in the Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick at the age of 80.