Tom Dewdney
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| Full name | David Thomas Dewdney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 October 1933 Kingston, Jamaica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut | 14 May 1955 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 13 March 1958 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1954/55–1957/58 | Jamaica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Thomas Dewdney (born 23 October 1933) is a West Indian former international cricketer who played in nine Test matches between 1955 and 1958.
After only two first-class matches for Jamaica in 1954–55 in which he took three wickets, Tom Dewdney was selected to open the bowling in the Fourth and Fifth Tests against Australia later that season. He took 4 for 125 in the first innings of the Fourth Test, and was selected to tour New Zealand in 1955–56. He took eight wickets in the three Tests he played there, and "added to his stature as a promising new-ball bowler".[1] He took 5 for 21 off 19.5 overs in the first innings of the Fourth Test in Auckland.[2]
He took his best first-class figures of 7 for 55 against a Duke of Norfolk's XI composed mostly of English Test players in 1956–57,[3] and was selected to tour England in 1957. He was reasonably successful in the first-class matches, taking 36 wickets at 27.05, including 5 for 69 against Gloucestershire and 5 for 38 (finishing the innings with a hat-trick) against Hampshire, but Roy Gilchrist and Frank Worrell were preferred as opening bowlers in the Tests, and he played only in the Fifth Test, replacing Gilchrist, who was sick, and taking one wicket.
He played three Tests against the touring Pakistan team in 1957–58, taking 7 wickets at 46.71. They were his last Tests, and his last first-class matches for two and a half years.[4]
Dewdney was in the car driven by Garry Sobers when it collided with a truck and caused the death of fellow West Indies player Collie Smith in England in September 1959.[5] They had all been playing league cricket in England that season. Dewdney and Sobers spent some time in hospital recovering from their injuries.[6]
He toured Australia in 1960–61, taking five wickets in six first-class matches. After one festival match at Hastings in 1961, his first-class career was over.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Wisden 1957, p. 829.
- ^ New Zealand v West Indies, Auckland 1955-56
- ^ Jamaica v Duke of Norfolk's XI 1956-57
- ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by Tom Dewdney (40)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- ^ Dewdney reflects on Collie Smith's life Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 9 May 2013
- ^ "Three West Indian Cricketers Hurt". The Times. No. 54559. 7 September 1959. Retrieved 27 August 2024 – via The Times Digital Archive.