Buster Nupen

Buster Nupen

Cricket information
Batting	Right-hand bat
Bowling	Right-arm fast-medium
International information
National side	South African
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class Matches 17 74 Runs scored 348 1635 Batting average 14.50 17.96 100s/50s 0/2 0/8 Top score 69 89 Balls bowled 4159 14210 Wickets 50 334 Bowling average 35.75 18.19 5 wickets in innings 5 33 10 wickets in match 1 12 Best bowling 6/46 9/48 Catches/stumpings 9/- 34/-
Source: Cricinfo

Eiulf Peter "Buster" Nupen (1 January 1902 – 29 January 1977) was a cricketer who played in 17 Test matches for South Africa between 1921–22 and 1935–36. He was of Norwegian descent and lost an eye in his early life.

A deadly force for Transvaal against lesser batsmen on matting during the late 1920s – by which time his bowling on these wickets had been developed into a fine art – in 1930–31 Nupen was, owing to the absence of South Africa's former captain Nummy Deane due to poor form, chosen to captain the Test team against England. He did so with considerable skill and accomplished the best bowling of his Test career. He took 5 for 63 and 6 for 87 in the First Test to give South Africa victory by 28 runs, and 3 for 148 and 6 for 46 in the drawn Fourth Test. However, Nupen was thought so badly of on turf pitches that he was left out of the Third and Fifth Tests, the first two ever played on turf in South Africa. He achieved his best-ever domestic figures the following year with 43 wickets for 434 runs (including 9 for 48 and 7 for 88 in the match against Griqualand West). In 28 Currie Cup matches for Transvaal he took 190 wickets at an average of 12.92, nine times taking 10 or more wickets in a match.

He was educated at King Edward VII School (Johannesburg) and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for 45 years.

External links

• Buster Nupen at Cricinfo
• Buster Nupen at CricketArchive