Tony Benneworth
Anthony John Benneworth was an Australian cricketer who played for Tasmania from 1971 until 1979. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler.
He played in Tasmania's inaugural Sheffield Shield team in 1977–78. He was the first Tasmanian to take five wickets in an innings in a Sheffield Shield match, when he took 5 for 115, as well as making 54 and 42, against South Australia in February 1978.
Benneworth was the Liberal candidate for Bass in the 2001 federal election but lost to Labor's Michelle O'Byrne. From 1992 to 1998 he served in the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
He died in a boating accident off Ansons Bay, Tasmania on 10 March 2018.
