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Ken Suttle

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Ken Suttle
Personal information
Full name
Kenneth George Suttle
Born(1928-08-25)25 August 1928
Hammersmith, England
Died25 March 2005(2005-03-25) (aged 76)
Port Louis, Mauritius
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 612 55
Runs scored 30225 1075
Batting average 31.09 22.39
100s/50s 49/156 2/3
Top score 204* 104
Balls bowled 21186 738
Wickets 266 16
Bowling average 32.80 28.18
5 wickets in innings 1 –
10 wickets in match – n/a
Best bowling 6-64 4-24
Catches/stumpings 384/3 12/-
Personal information
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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ "Symonds smashes 16 sixes". ESPN Cricinfo. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e Wisden 2006, pp. 1531–32.
  3. ^ Wisden 1963, p. 612.
  4. ^ "Worcestershire v Sussex 1970". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  5. ^ "Sussex v Northamptonshire 1968". Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  6. ^ Basevi, Travis and George Binoy. "Flying first class". Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Ken Suttle". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
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