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Dudley Nourse Personal information Full name Arthur Dudley Nourse Born 12 November 1910
Durban, Natal, South AfricaDied 14 August 1981 (aged 70)
Durban, Natal, South AfricaBatting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm (unknown style) Role Batsman Relations Dave Nourse (Father) International information National side South Africa Test debut (cap 140) 15 June 1935 v England Last Test 16 August 1951 v England Domestic team information Years Team 1931-1953 Natal Career statistics Competition Test First-class Matches 34 175 Runs scored 2960 12472 Batting average 53.81 51.53 100s/50s 9/14 41/54 Top score 231 260* Balls bowled 20 250 Wickets 0 0 Bowling average - - 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 Best bowling 0/0 0/0 Catches/stumpings 12/0 135/0 Source: CricketArchive, 30 January 2009 Arthur Dudley Nourse (12 November 1910 - 14 August 1981) was a South African Test cricketer and batsman
The son of batsman Arthur (Dave) Nourse, Nourse played 34 Test matches in a long career of sixteen years. At the time of his retirement, he held the highest batting average of any South African batsman (currently surpassed only by Jacques Kallis and Graeme Pollock).
Nourse also captained his country in fifteen matches, and it was as captain that he played what Cricinfo describes as "his most renowned innings". Against England in 1951 he batted with a broken thumb, but scored 208 to win South Africa the game. Nourse retired from cricket after that series.
Nourse was named after William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley who was the Governor-General of Australia. He was born a few days after Dave Nourse scored a double hundred against South Australia[1] where was touring with the South African team. When Earl Dudley heard about the innings and the baby, he expressed the wish that he be named after him.[2]
References
- ^ Cricket Archive
- ^ Dudley Nourse, Cricket in the blood
Dudley Nourse's career performance graph.
South African batsmen with a Test batting average above 50 Jacques Kallis (57.31) • Dudley Nourse (53.81) • Graeme Pollock (60.97)Minimum 20 innings. Current players are listed in italics. Batsmen with a Test batting average above 50 Australia Donald Bradman (99.94) • Michael Hussey (53.26) • Ricky Ponting (53.13) • Greg Chappell (53.86) • Jack Ryder (51.62) • Steve Waugh (51.06) • Matthew Hayden (50.73) • Allan Border (50.56)England Herbert Sutcliffe (60.73) • Eddie Paynter (59.23) • Ken Barrington (58.67) • Wally Hammond (58.45) • Jonathan Trott (57.79) • Jack Hobbs (56.94) • Len Hutton (56.67) • Ernest Tyldesley (55.00) • Kevin Pietersen (50.48) • Denis Compton (50.06)India Sachin Tendulkar (56.25) • Vinod Kambli (54.20) • Rahul Dravid (53.00) • Virender Sehwag (52.26) • Sunil Gavaskar (51.12)Pakistan South Africa Graeme Pollock (60.97) • Jacques Kallis (57.43) • Dudley Nourse (53.81)Sri Lanka West Indies George Headley (60.83) • Everton Weekes (58.61) • Garfield Sobers (57.78) • Clyde Walcott (56.68) • Charlie Davis (54.20) • Brian Lara (53.17) • Viv Richards (50.23)Zimbabwe Andy Flower (51.54)Minimum 20 innings. Current players are listed in Bold italics. Categories:- South Africa Test cricketers
- South African cricketers
- White South African people
- KwaZulu-Natal cricketers
- 1910 births
- 1981 deaths
- Wisden Cricketers of the Year
- People from Durban
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