- Montagu Toller
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Montagu Henry Toller (1 January 1871 in Barnstaple, Devon – 5 August 1948 in Titchfield, Hampshire) was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. Toller was in the cricket XI and the rugby XV at Blundell's School. He was a solicitor by profession.
County career
Toller played six first-class matches for Somerset in 1897. His highest first-class score was 17 against Surrey. He only bowled once in first-class cricket, taking one wicket for 15 runs against Philadelphia. He also played for Devon.
Olympics
Olympic medal record Competitor for United Kingdom Men's Cricket Gold 1900 Paris Two-day 12-man Toller was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only game against France he scored 2 runs in the Great Britain first innings and did not bat in the second. He took seven wickets for just nine runs in the French second innings.
Main article: Cricket at the 1900 Summer OlympicsReferences
- Buchanan, Ian British Olympians. Guinness Publishing (1991) ISBN 0-85112-952-8
- Olympic final scorecard
- Cricket Archive profile
Categories:- 1871 births
- Old Blundellians
- 1948 deaths
- English cricketers
- Somerset cricketers
- Devon cricketers
- Olympic cricketers of Great Britain
- Cricketers at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- English cricket biography, 1870s births stubs
- British Olympic medalist stubs
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