Derek Chadwick | |
Fullname: | Derek Chadwick |
Birth Date: | 21 March 1941 |
Birth Place: | Busselton, Western Australia |
Statsend: | 1972 |
Years1: | 1959–1972 |
Club1: | East Perth |
Games Goals1: | 269 (-) |
Derek Chadwick (born 21 March 1941) is an Australian former sportsman, playing both first-class cricket with Western Australia and Australian rules football for East Perth in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL).
Chadwick was a right-handed opening batsman who made 4082 runs at 34.30 during his cricketing career, with 9 centuries. He toured New Zealand with the Australian team in 1969-70. As a footballer he was a wingman and played a at-the-time club record 269 games for East Perth, winning their best and fairest award, the F.D. Book Medal twice. In 1964 he won a Simpson Medal for his performances with the Western Australian state team in tours of Melbourne and Adelaide, and was inducted into the WAFL Hall of Fame in 2004.[1] [2]