Cec Dixon

Infobox Historic Cricketer


nationality = South African
country = South Africa
country abbrev = RSA
name = Cec Dixon
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Right-hand bat
bowling style = Right-arm medium
tests = 1
test runs = 0
test bat avg = 0.00
test 100s/50s = 0 / 0
test top score = 0
test balls = 240
test wickets = 3
test bowl avg = 39.33
test 5s = 0
test 10s = 0
test best bowling = 2 / 62
test catches/stumpings = 1 / 0
FCs = 33
FC runs = 184
FC bat avg = 5.93
FC 100s/50s = 0 / 0
FC top score = 27
FC balls = 5,200
FC wickets = 106
FC bowl avg = 24.11
FC 5s = 6
FC 10s = 1
FC best bowling = 7 / 16
FC catches/stumpings = 21 / 0
debut date = 1 January
debut year = 1914
last date = 1 January
last year = 1914
source = http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/366/366.html CricketArchive

Cecil Donovan Dixon - A talented medium-to-fast-medium pace bowler, Cec. Dixon was born in Potchefstroom in the Transvaal, South Africa on February 12, 1891, and died in Johannesburg, South Africa on September 9, 1969, aged 78. During a first-class career that spanned the years 1913 to 1924, it would be fair to say that his batting was exactly what one would expect from a ‘tailender’. From 39 innings he amassed just 184 runs with a top score of 27 and ended his career with an average below six. But he was a respected bowler who took five wickets in an innings on six occasions and ten wickets in a match once. His best figures, 7 for sixteen, were gained at the expense of Griqualand West in a Currie Cup match played at Johannesburg in 1923/24, and in that season Dixon went on to take 33 wickets at an average of exactly 10 runs apiece. He topped the bowling averages that season and significantly helped Transvaal to their eighth domestic title. Dixon toured England with South Africa during the summer of 1924 but was rather disappointing. His only success of note was against Scotland at Glasgow where he followed an innings of 4 for 14 with one of 6 for 39 to gain his only five wicket haul of the tour and the only ten wicket match collection of his career. He was left out of all the Test matches whilst in England that year but had already gained his sole Test ten years earlier at Johannesburg. Playing against an England side led by J.W.H.T. Douglas in the third match of the series, Dixon failed to score in either innings and took three wickets for 118 runs in the match, including the great Jack Hobbs twice. He played just one further first-class match after the 1924 tour and his death in 1969 appeared to go unrecorded at the time. Therefore no obituary appeared within Wisden for him.

References

# "World Cricketers - A Biographical Dictionary" by Christopher Martin-Jenkins, published by Oxford University Press (1996).
# "The Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Volume 1 (1877-1977)" compiled and edited by Bill Frindall, published by Headline Book Publishing (1995).
# www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players.