- Dudley Pontifex
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Dudley Pontifex Personal information Full name Dudley David Pontifex Born 12 February 1855
Weston, Bath, Somerset, EnglandDied 27 September 1934 (aged 79)
West Dulwich, London, EnglandBatting style Right-handed Role Batsman Domestic team information Years Team 1881 Surrey 1882 Somerset 1883–96 MCC First-class cricket debut 3 June 1878 Gentlemen of England v Oxford University Last First-class cricket 19 May 1896 MCC v Essex Career statistics Competition First-class Matches 17 Runs scored 357 Batting average 13.73 100s/50s –/1 Top score 89 Balls bowled 13 Wickets – Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 0/13 Catches/stumpings 3/– Source: CricketArchive, 11 July 2011 Dudley David Pontifex (12 February 1855 – 27 September 1934) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Surrey, Somerset and the Marylebone Cricket Club, plus other amateur sides, between 1878 and 1896.[1] He was born at Weston, Bath, Somerset, and died at West Dulwich, London.
Pontifex was a right-handed middle-order or opening batsman. Educated in Bath, he appeared in a freshmen's trial match at Cambridge University but failed to make the first team; he did, however, win a Blue for billiards.[2]
Appearing in minor cricket for amateur sides in Somerset and for Somerset County Cricket Club in non-first-class matches from 1877, Pontifex made his first-class cricket debut in 1878 against Oxford University for a Gentlemen of England side, and was successful neither in that nor in the South v North match that followed.[3] After university, Pontifex moved to London to qualify as a lawyer and in 1881 he appeared fairly regularly in first-class matches for Surrey. In the match against Nottinghamshire at The Oval, he opened the batting and scored 89; this was his only score of more than 50 in first-class cricket.[4] This was his only season of regular cricket. In 1882, he made a single first-class appearance in Somerset's debut season as a first-class team. He then played for MCC irregularly, and only very occasionally in first-class matches, over the next 14 seasons until his final first-class match in 1896.
References
- ^ "Dudley Pontifex". www.cricketarchive.com. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3761/3761.html. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
- ^ "Brief profile of D.D. Pontifex". www.cricketarchive.com. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Articles/1/1240.html. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
- ^ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Gentlemen of England". www.cricketarchive.com. 1878-06-03. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2178.html. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
- ^ "Scorecard: Surrey v Nottinghamshire". www.cricketarchive.com. 1881-07-21. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2488.html. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
Categories:- 1855 births
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- English cricketers
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