Brian Booth: Ex-AUS Test captain dies at 89

Brian Booth, the former Australia Test captain, has died at the age of 89. Booth played a total of 29 Tests, scoring 1773 runs and taking three wickets.

Brian Booth waited for 16 months –

Booth represented Australia in hockey at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics before he earned his Test cap on the 1961 Ashes tour.

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Booth waited for 16 months to play a Test at home. And when the time arrived, he notched up 112 and 19 not out against England in Brisbane in December, 1962.

Brian Booth followed it up with a second hundred in the next Test in Melbourne. He is best remembered for his two hundreds against South Africa – 169 in the first Test in Brisbane and 102 not out in the fifth Test in Sydney.