Don Seccombe

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Don Seccombe, full name Donald Harry Seccombe, AM, (born 3 April 1942) is a former Australian politician and cricketer from Queensland. He played four first-class games for Queensland in the early 1960s as a right-handed middle-order batsman, scoring 212 runs with a top score of 58.

Seccombe made his Queensland debut in the 1962–63 Sheffield Shield at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where he scored 58 in his first innings and helped a 118-run partnership for the fifth wicket with Des Bull. In the next match at the Gabba, he made 48 and 41, adding 104 for the fourth wicket with Graham Bizzell. His last two matches came in 1965 against South Australia and Victoria, and he finished with 57 runs in four innings. He was briefly promoted to first drop in one game and was dismissed for a duck by Alan Connolly, who finished with 9/67 in that innings. He continued to play for country representative sides into the late 1970s.

Outside of cricket, Seccombe worked as national sales manager for Incitec Ltd. He helped found the Redlands Sporting Club and the Redland Foundation, and he served as president of Clubs Queensland. He was mayor of Redland Shire from 2001 to 2008, after which he did not seek re-election. In 2014 he was named a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to the community, particularly in cricket administration and clubs. His nephew Wade Seccombe also had a notable cricket career for Queensland.