Norm O’Neill an Australian cricketer has died on Monay following a long illness. Norm O’Neill was one of NSW’s & Australia’s best ever cricketers. David Gilbert the Chief Executive of NSW Cricket said, “He will be remembered as a dashing stroke maker who was a crowd favourite. He will be sadly missed”. Warren Saunders who played with Norm O’Neill at his club St George and for NSW said, “I’ve got beautiful memories of Norm O’Neill he was a sensational cricketer. He was a sensational sportsman, actually he was also a top-class baseballer as well as a cricketer. He was a wonderful fellow to play with in every respect, a great team man, a chamption batsman. He’s got a great Test record but that doesn’t really tell the story it was the way he got his runs that excited everybody. He was a beautiful thrower with a very strong arm & a handy change bowler: he was the complete package”.