Ken Suttle
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Full name | Kenneth George Suttle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1928-08-25)25 August 1928 Hammersmith, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 25 March 2005(2005-03-25) (aged 76) Port Louis, Mauritius | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive |
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Position(s) | Winger | ||
Youth career | |||
1947–1948 | Worthing | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1948 | Chelsea | 0 | (0) |
1948–1949 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 3 | (0) |
– | Chelmsford City | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Kenneth George Suttle (25 August 1928 – 25 March 2005) was an English cricketer.
Cricket career
Ken Suttle was primarily a left-handed batsman but was also a useful slow left-arm bowler. His first-class career with Sussex lasted from 1949 to 1971. He played in 612 first-class matches. This included an unbroken sequence of 423 consecutive County Championship matches between 1954 and 1969, which is still the record number.[1]
Suttle was a quick-footed, unorthodox batsman, endlessly fidgeting at the crease between deliveries.[2] He made 30225 first-class runs at an average of 31.09, with 49 centuries, reaching 1000 runs in 17 successive seasons from 1953 to 1969.[2] In 1962 he scored more than 2000 runs in the County Championship, and made his highest score of 204 not out against Kent.[3] He took 266 wickets at 32.80, with best innings figures of 6 for 64 against Worcestershire in 1970.[4]
He played in 55 List A one-day matches, and was a member of the Sussex side which won the Gillette Cup in 1963 and 1964 (the first two years of the competition). He won the Man of the Match award in a quarter-final of the Gillette Cup in 1968, scoring 100 in a seven-run victory for Sussex over Northamptonshire.[5]
He toured the West Indies with England in 1953-54, but never played in a Test. He stands equal third with Les Berry in the list of players with most first-class runs not to have played a Test.[6]
After leaving Sussex he played for Suffolk for two seasons, ran an equipment shop, then coached at Christ's Hospital. He umpired a handful of first-class university matches in 1983.[2]
Outside cricket
Suttle was educated at Worthing High School.[7] In the 1950s he played football as well as cricket. He made three first-team appearances as a winger for Brighton & Hove Albion FC in 1949.[2] He was player/manager of Arundel F.C. when they won consecutive Sussex County League Division One titles in the 1957/58 and 1958/59 seasons.
He died in 2005 while on holiday in Mauritius.[2]
References
- ^ "Symonds smashes 16 sixes". ESPN Cricinfo. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- ^ a b c d e Wisden 2006, pp. 1531–32.
- ^ Wisden 1963, p. 612.
- ^ "Worcestershire v Sussex 1970". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- ^ "Sussex v Northamptonshire 1968". Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- ^ Basevi, Travis and George Binoy. "Flying first class". Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- ^ "Ken Suttle". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
External links
- Ken Suttle at ESPNcricinfo