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Fitzroy, Victoria born George Alexander was a hard-hitting right-hand batsman, a good change fast bowler, a smart field and a sure catch. He will perhaps be better remembered as the player-manager of the Australian teams which visited England under the captaincy of W.L. Murdoch in 1880 and 1884. He also acted in the same capacity for the Hon. Ivo Bligh’s side which went out to Australia to retrieve The Ashes in the winter of 1882-83.
He took part in two Test matches, making his debut for Australia at The Oval in September 1880 and at Adelaide in December, 1884. In the great contest at The Oval in 1880, the first real Test match but officially the fourth, he joined Murdoch on the third day when Australia, with eight men down, required 84 runs to avoid an innings defeat. Previously in eleven-a-side games in England he had scored only 10 runs in four innings but on this all-important occasion he made 33 and shared in a stand of 52. W.H. Moule, who up to then had taken no part at all in a match in England, afterwards helped Murdoch to add 88 and England, so far from winning in an innings, had 57 to get to win and lost half their wickets for 30 before Penn and WG Grace saw them home.
He also played in the Adelaide Test match in December 1884, but added only 13 runs to his Test match total and didn’t add to his two wickets of the 1880 match, as England won the match by 8 wickets.
He made his first class debut for Victoria in 1875-76 and  against New South Wales at Melbourne in 1879-80 he made 75, the highest score for either side and his highest first class score, besides taking five wickets for 64 runs. For the Australian team of 1880 during their whole tour, he took 109 wickets for exactly nine runs each. In the match with 22 of Southland, at Invercargill, he took eleven in an innings for 45. Later, at Melbourne in 1883-84, he made 50 for the Australian team against The Rest. The 1884-85 season proved his last in first class cricket.
In 24 first class matches he averaged 15.53 in scoring 466 runs, and took 34 wickets at an average of 17.85, with a best performance of 6-57, his only five or more wicket performance. He also took 16 catches including 2 in Test cricket.
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