A-Z (D4)

A-Z (D4)

December 5, 2017, 5:39 pm
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OK de Wet is here for now, but I suspect Tigger is right because it’s not deWet it’s de Wet. No one very substantial here, so I’m pushing on towards the end of the Ds

de Wet, Friedel (509) born South Africa 26.6.1980. Pace bowler de Wet, who played in two Test Matches for South Africa in 2009/10, signed for Hampshire in 2011. He played in four first-class matches in that season, taking nine wickets at 52.22. He did not play in limited-overs or T20 matches.

Dibden, Richard Rockley (428) born Southampton 29.1.1975. Off spinner Richard Dibden played for Hampshire 2nd XI from 1994-1998, and appeared in four first-class matches for Hampshire in 1995, taking six wickets at 71.33 with a best of 2-36 v Yorkshire. In seven innings (two not out) he failed to score a run. In the following season he played in one first-class match for the British Universities v the Indians. In 2001 & 2002 he played in three List A matches for the Hampshire Cricket Board in the C&G Trophy. He played for some years for BAT Sports and then Totton & Eling in the Southern League.

Dible, William Guy (Pre ’95) born Sholing 5.11.1861, died Fareham 15.8.1894. He was also known as William Charles Dible, and was a fast bowler who played for Surrey in one first-class match v the Australians in 1882. He made his first-class debut for Hampshire in the following season and played regularly in the next three years (25 matches), after which the county lost its first-class status. He was an effective bowler taking five or more wickets in an innings on five occasions, and ten in the match v Sussex at the Antelope in 1893 (4-16 & 6-50), having already taken 5-69 earlier that season in an innings defeat at Hove. Two years later, again against Sussex, he recorded his best figures of 7-60. Overall he took 90 first-class wickets for Hampshire at 22.17 and he continued to play in second-class matches until 1890, but died just four years later age just 32.

Dickinson, Calvin Miles (549) born South Africa 3.11.1996. Dickinson is a wicketkeeper currently on the staff, and the only man to have scored 99 on first-class debut for Hampshire (to be completed).

Dighton, Michael Gray (List A) Australian Dighton appeared in two limited-overs matches for Hampshire in 2004 while with Greenock CC in Scotland. The two matches, both at Bristol, were played one week apart in May and he top-scored with 74 in the first, a league victory, but scored just 12 as Hampshire were knocked out of the C&G Trophy. In Australia he played for Western Australia and Tasmania and in England for Derbyshire in 2007.

Dixon, Cecil Egerton (253 – Amateur) born Scotland 21.7.1903, died Battle, Sussex 3.3.1973. Dixon was a batsman who played at Wellington College and Sandhurst, and represented the Army v Public Schools at Lord’s in 1928. In the following year he played in two matches for Hampshire in late May, scoring just ten runs in four innings, and both matches, v Gloucestershire and Derbyshire, ended in innings defeats. Neither Mead (injured) nor the captain Tennyson were available in either match, and Brown was an unusual professional captain in the second one. We have no further information about his cricket career.

Dodd, William Thomas Francis (260) born Steep, Hampshire 8.3.1908, died New Forest 13.2.1993. Dodd was a slow-left arm bowler who had the difficult task of challenging Stuart Boyes for a permanent place during his first-class career from 1931-1935. In the event he played in just 10 first-class matches, taking 10 wickets at 32.10, with a best of 5-63 v Middlesex on a rain-affected pitch in his penultimate match. Perhaps his best performance was 3-59 v Yorkshire at Hull in June 1935 in a total of 315-5 dec, including a Sutcliffe century. Hampshire lost by an innings in two days. His final match was v Glamorgan at Cardiff in July 1935 and Boyes replaced him in the following game.

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