Claude Floquet

Claude Eugene Floquet was an occasional player for Transvaal cricket team during the first decade of the 20th century.

Biography

He was born in Aliwal North, Cape Colony, on 3 November 1884 and died in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province on 22 November 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.

References

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