Dickie Burrough

Dickie Burrough

Personal information
Full name	Herbert Dickinson Burrough
Born	6 February 1909(1909-02-06) Wedmore, Somerset, England
Died	9 April 1994(1994-04-09) (aged 85) Padstow, Cornwall, England
Nickname	Dickie
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Role	Batsman
Relations	Father, William, Somerset 1906
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1927–1947	Somerset
First-class debut	27 August 1927 Somerset v Glamorgan
Last First-class	3 June 1947 Somerset v Glamorgan
Career statistics
Competition	First-class
Matches	171
Runs scored	5316
Batting average	20.92
100s/50s	4/23
Top score	135
Balls bowled	–
Wickets	–
Bowling average	–
5 wickets in innings	–
10 wickets in match	–
Best bowling	–
Catches/stumpings	83/–
Source: CricketArchive, 25 April 2010

Herbert Dickinson "Dickie" Burrough, born at Wedmore, Somerset, on 6 February 1909, and died at Padstow, Cornwall, on 9 April 1994, played 171 first-class cricket matches for Somerset in a career that last for 20 years from 1927.

An amateur right-handed batsman who sometimes opened the innings, Burrough played fairly regular first-class cricket for Somerset in the early 1930s, making useful runs and fielding athletically. He was, said his obituary in Wisden, "notably enthusiastic".^[1] He had been at Cambridge University, but appeared there in only one trial match for "seniors", and never made the first-class cricket side. He was also passed over at Cambridge for hockey, failing to win his university Blue for the sport, though he later played three times for the England team.

In 1931, he played cricket regularly for Somerset, though his highest score was only 55 and he averaged just 16 runs per innings. The following year, 1932, he hit centuries against Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, the former – 135 in 180 minutes at Kettering – remaining the highest score of his career, and his average rose to 27. This record was "as good as that of any other member of the team," said Wisden.^[2]

In 1933, though there were no further centuries, Burrough reached 1000 runs in a season for the only time in his career, finishing with 1007. This was his last season for full-time cricket, although he continued to play fairly regularly until 1939, with two further centuries in 1935 and 1937. After the Second World War, he played just three first-class matches, without success.

Like his county captains Reggie Ingle and Bunty Longrigg, Burrough was a solicitor in Bath. He also played for Bath Cricket Club.

References

1. ^ "Obituaries, 1994". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1995 ed.). Wisden. pp. p1380. 
2. ^ "Somerset Matches". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1933 ed.). Wisden. pp. p230. 

Persondata
Name	Burrough, Dickie
Alternative names
Short description	Cricketer
Date of birth	6 February 1909
Place of birth	Wedmore, Somerset
Date of death	9 April 1994
Place of death	Padstow, Cornwall