A right-hand batsman, William Stephen Farrer, better known as Buster, was a product of Dale College. Representing his country at both cricket and hockey he also had colours for Border in tennis, bowls, golf and squash. In 1962 he was voted as one of five SA Cricket Annual players of the year. In 1968 he was voted as Border Sports Star of the year for his cricketing achievements and followed it up in 1971 with the same award, this time for hockey. Buster's major asset was his wonderful, unflustered temperament. Only having played in six Tests between 1961-62 and 1963-64, all against New Zealand, three in South Africa and three in New Zealand. In contrast his first-class career spanned 15 years in which he scored 12 hundreds and 22 fifties for an average of 43.37. He also has four first-class wickets as a very occasional off-spin bowler.
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Buster Farrer Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

Format	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100s	50s	6s	Ct
Tests	6	10	2	221	40	27.62	0	0	0	2
FC	69	124	13	4815	211	43.37	12	22	-	41
List A	1	1	0	33	33	33.00	0	0	-	1

Bowling

Format	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10w
Tests	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
FC	69	-	507	194	4	1/2	-	48.50	2.29	126.7	-	0	0
List A	1	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0

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Recent Matches of Buster Farrer

Match	Bat	Date	Ground	Format
Minkley's XI vs Pollock XI	33	30-Mar-1970	Gqeberha	List A
South Africa vs New Zealand	21 & 5*	13-Mar-1964	Auckland	Test # 560
South Africa vs New Zealand	39	28-Feb-1964	Dunedin	Test # 559
South Africa vs New Zealand	30 & 38*	21-Feb-1964	Wellington	Test # 558
Sth Africans vs WA Comb. XI	50	01-Nov-1963	Perth	FC