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{{short description|Indian cricketer (1945–2015)}}<br />
{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Tony Fernandes<br />
| image = Tony Fernandes in 1973.png<br />
| caption = Fernandes in Tasmania in 1973<br />
| country = India<br />
| fullname = Anthony Longinus Fernandes <br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|4|8|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Baroda]], [[Baroda State]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|12|19|1945|4|8|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], India<br />
| batting = Right-handed<br />
| bowling = Right-arm medium-fast<br />
| role = All-rounder<br />
| club1 = [[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]]<br />
| year1 = 1962–63 to 1973–74<br />
| club2 = [[West Zone cricket team|West Zone]]<br />
| year2 = 1966–67 to 1969–70<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 48 <br />
| runs1 = 1526<br />
| bat avg1 = 24.22<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 0/10<br />
| top score1 = 65[[not out|*]]<br />
| deliveries1 = 6043<br />
| wickets1 = 100<br />
| bowl avg1 = 31.78<br />
| fivefor1 = 3<br />
| tenfor1 = 0<br />
| best bowling1 = 6/41<br />
| catches/stumpings1= 19/–<br />
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/anthony-fernandes-28733 Cricinfo<br />
| date = 14 January <br />
| year = 2024<br />
}}<br />
'''Anthony Longinus Fernandes''' (8 April 1945 – 19 December 2015) was an Indian cricketer who played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]] and [[West Zone cricket team|West Zone]] from 1962 to 1973.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Fernandes was a tall all-rounder: a right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm medium-fast swing bowler who usually opened the bowling.<ref name=WCA>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 2016, p. 210.</ref> His best bowling figures were 6 for 41 for Baroda against [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]] in the 1968–69 [[Ranji Trophy]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Baroda v Maharashtra 1968–69 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1960S/1968-69/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/WEST/BARODA_MAHA_RJI-W_16-18NOV1968.html|website=Cricinfo |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref> The highest of his 10 first-class fifties was 65 [[not out]], also against Maharashtra, in 1971–72, when he also took 5 for 65 in Maharashtra's first innings.<ref>{{cite web |title= Maharashtra v Baroda 1971–72 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1970S/1971-72/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/WEST/MAHA_BARODA_RJI-W_15-17JAN1972.html|website=Cricinfo |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref> <br />
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Fernandes was a member of the West Zone teams that won the [[Duleep Trophy]] in 1968–69 and 1969–70.<ref>{{cite web |title= First-Class Matches played by Tony Fernandes|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/38/38883/First-Class_Matches.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref> He and his brother Leslie, a wicketkeeper, combined to dismiss [[Sunil Gavaskar]] caught behind in a Ranji Trophy match in 1972–73.<ref>{{cite web |title= Bombay v Baroda 1972–73 |url= http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1970S/1972-73/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/WEST/BOM_BARODA_RJI-W_01-02DEC1972.html|website=Cricinfo |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref><br />
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After his first-class playing career ended, Fernandes spent some time coaching in Tasmania.<ref>{{cite web |title= Tony Fernandes, Indian all-rounder, coach of the Burnie Cricket Club|url= https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-137892896/view|website=NLA |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref> He died in Mumbai in 2015.<ref name=WCA/><br />
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