- Michael Sutton (cricketer)
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Michael Sutton Personal information Full name Michael Antony Sutton Born 29 March 1921
Weymouth, Dorset, EnglandBatting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm off-spin Role Bowler Domestic team information Years Team 1946–47 Oxford University 1948 Somerset First-class cricket debut 22 May 1946 Oxford University v Yorkshire Last First-class cricket 25 June 1948 Somerset v Oxford University Career statistics Competition First-class Matches 19 Runs scored 144 Batting average 8.00 100s/50s –/– Top score 30 Balls bowled 2678 Wickets 47 Bowling average 25.91 5 wickets in innings 1 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 5/63 Catches/stumpings 23/– Source: CricketArchive, 27 February 2011 Michael Antony Sutton (born 29 March 1921) played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1946 and 1947 and also appeared in a single first-class match for Somerset in 1948, playing against Oxford University.[1] He was born at Weymouth, Dorset.
Sutton was educated at Ampleforth College and at Worcester College, Oxford.[2] As a cricketer he was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm off-spin bowler. In the 1946 season, he was the most economical of Oxford's regular bowlers, with 31 wickets at an average of 22.93 runs each. The best bowling figures of his career came in the match against Leicestershire when he took five second innings wickets for 63 runs, his only five-wicket return.[3] He took three wickets in the 1946 University match against Cambridge.[4]
Sutton played for the Oxford University side again in 10 matches in 1947 but his bowling was less effective and the English-born Canadian off-spin bowler Basil Robinson was preferred in the team for the 1947 University match.[5] In 1948 he played his one first-class match for Somerset and in 1954 he played once in the Minor Counties for Devon as well as in two other minor matches.
References
- ^ "Michael Sutton". www.cricketarchive.com. http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3838/3838.html. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
- ^ "Other Matches at Lord's, 1946". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1947 ed.). Wisden. pp. 209–210.
- ^ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Leicestershire". www.cricketarchive.com. 1946-06-05. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17652.html. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
- ^ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 1946-07-06. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17736.html. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "The Universities in 1947". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1948 ed.). Wisden. p. 560.
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