Clive Fairbairn

Clive Lindsay Fairbairn (25 August 1919 – 12 May 2010), who went by the nickname "Fairy", was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class cricket match for Victoria in 1948, but spent most of his 1936-1957 career playing for the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC). He went on to manage the MCC for nearly forty years before being compulsorily retired in 1990. The following year he was given honorary lifetime membership of the MCC.

During the second world war Fairbairn served with Australian forces at Tobruk and El Alamein in North Africa, and in New Guinea and Borneo as part of the South-West Pacific campaign.