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Arthur Brodhurst

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Arthur Hugh ("Podge") Brodhurst (21 July 1916 – 24 June 2006) was an English cricketer. He was educated at Malvern College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He played for Cambridge University and Gloucestershire from 1937 to 1946, re-appearing in a single first-class game for Marylebone Cricket Club in Canada in 1951. A son-in-law of H. S. Altham, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and died in Winchester, Hampshire.

Brodhurst appeared in 20 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman who bowled right arm off break. He scored 658 runs with a highest score of 111 and held eight catches. He took six wickets with a best analysis of four for 83.[1]

Between 1946 and 1983 he was a master at Winchester College.

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