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Blackie continued to play district cricket for St Kilda until the 1934–35 season, retiring at age 53. With St Kilda, he took 495 wickets at 14.19, and in 1926-27 became the first of only four cricketers (as of 2021) to take a ten-wicket haul in a district match, taking 10/64 against
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On his Test debut, in the Second Test in 1928–29, he took 4 for 148 off 59 six-ball overs in
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