Jim Pressdee
 Glamorgan (WAL) |
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |
| Bowling type | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| First-class record | ||
| Matches | 347 | |
| Runs scored | 14267 | |
| Batting average | 28.82 | |
| 100s/50s | 13 | |
| Top score | 150* | |
| Balls bowled | 26137 | |
| Wickets | 481 | |
| Bowling average | 22.17 | |
| 5 wickets in innings | 21 | |
| 10 wickets in match | 5 | |
| Best Bowling | 9-43 | |
| Catches/Stumpings | 371 | |
| First class debut: -, 1949 Last first class game: -, 1970 Source: [1] |
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James Stuart Pressdee (born June 19, 1933, Mumbles, Wales) is a former Welsh first class cricketer. He was a left arm spinner and aggressive right-handed batsman.
Pressdee made his debut for Glamorgan against Nottinghamshire at Cardiff Arms Park when just 16 years of age. He won Welsh youth cap at Football and was on the books at Swansea Town.
A regular in the team from 1955 onwards, Pressdee scored a thousand runs in a season on six occasions with 1911 in 1962 being his best. He scored 13 centuries including one for North-East Transvaal.
Pressdee was an inconsistent bowler. Having taken 71 wickets in 1955, he captured only 54 during the next seven seasons when in 1963 and 1964 he came to prominence as an all-rounder, completing the double in each season. In 1965, Pressdee took 9 for 43 against Yorkshire at Swansea. Pressdee emigrated to South Africa in 1965 where he played for North-East Transvaal. He won the South African Cricket Annual Cricketer of the Year award in 1966 after taking 33 wickets.
Pressdee returned to Wales in the 1980s and captained the Glamorgan Colts side in the South Wales Cricket Association.
He is the father in law of former South African cricketer Rodney Ontong.
