Tony Benneworth
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Anthony John Benneworth (12 December 1950 – 10 March 2018)[1] was an Australian cricketer who played for Tasmania from 1971 until 1979.[2] He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler.
He played in Tasmania's inaugural Sheffield Shield team in 1977–78. He was the first Tasmanian to take five wickets in an innings in a Sheffield Shield match, when he took 5 for 115, as well as making 54 and 42, against South Australia in February 1978.[3]
Benneworth was the Liberal candidate for Bass in the 2001 federal election but lost to Labor's Michelle O'Byrne.[4] From 1992 to 1998 he served in the Tasmanian House of Assembly.[5][6]
He died in a boating accident off Ansons Bay, Tasmania on 10 March 2018.[1]
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