Wisden obituary
Although he was 30 by the time he was favoured with his first Test cap, fully 13 years after his debut for Queensland, most of Don Tallon's generation brook no argument that he was Australia's finest wicketkeeper. Alert, agile and sure-handed, his stumpings were subtle, almost surgical, seldom involving the removal of more than one bail. As a batsman, too, his instincts were attacking: his highest Test score, 92 against England in January 1947, took only 87 minutes; his best first-class score of 146 not out included a last-wicket partnership of 100 in an hour, to which Geff Noblet contributed 9. Tallon's career was shortened by age and ill-health, but few cricketers create such a retrospective consensus. Gideon Haigh

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