Eric Dempster

Eric Dempster

Eric Dempster in 1953
Cricket information
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
International information
National side
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 5 52
Runs scored 106 1593
Batting average 17.66 21.82
100s/50s 0/0 1/7
Top score 47 105
Balls bowled 544 8125
Wickets 2 102
Bowling average 109.50 30.80
5 wickets in innings 0 3
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 1/24 5/46
Catches/stumpings 1/- 25/-
Source: Cricinfo

Eric William Dempster, MBE (25 January 1925, Wellington – 15 August 2011 in Dunedin), was a New Zealand cricketer who played in five Tests from 1953 to 1954.

A left-arm spinner and useful lower-order batsman, Dempster played for Wellington from 1947-48 to 1960-61. He made his Test debut in the Second Test against South Africa in Auckland in 1952-53, and toured South Africa the following season, playing in four of the five Tests. His best performance in Tests was in the Fourth Test in 1953-54 in Johannesburg, when he made 21 not out batting at number eight in the first innings then, when New Zealand followed on, he opened and top-scored with 47 in the second innings.[1]

His best first-class bowling figures of 5 for 46 came in the match against Orange Free State at Bloemfontein in 1953-54, and he scored his only century, 105, for Wellington against Canterbury at Wellington in 1956-57.

He became an umpire and officiated in several of Otago's home first-class and one-day matches from 1971-72 to 1979-80. He also umpired three One Day International matches in Dunedin and Christchurch between 1973-74 and 1975-76.[2]

In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Dempster was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the disabled and cricket.[3] He worked in Dunedin as the manager of the artificial limb service which was attached to Dunedin Hospital.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ South Africa v New Zealand, Johannesburg, 1953-54
  2. ↑ Eric Dempster umpiring
  3. ↑ London Gazette (supplement), No. 50553, 13 June 1986. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Wisden 2012, p. 190.

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