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Bowling | Right-arm offspinner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1946 - 1949 | Kent County Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edmund ("Eddie") Crush (25 April, 1917 – 9 June, 2007) was an English cricketer playing for Kent between 1946 and 1949.
Crush was born in Dover in 1917. [1] He served during World War II in the Royal Engineers. On D-Day, he was a Subaltern and decorated with the Military Cross for his actions on the day by Field Marshal Montgomery. His citation read: "As a result of his courage and determined leadership, anti-tank guns, troops and an anti-tank regiment of the Royal Artillery were able to get up to the objective for consolidation at a very early stage in the battle." [2]
Crush played for Kent as an offspinner and occasional seamer as well as a lower order batsman. The highlight of his career was dismissing Don Bradman in 1948 when Kent played the touring Australian cricket team.[3] Crush retired after the 1949 season.
He died in 2007.
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