Lance Duldig

Lance Desmond Duldig (21 February 1922 – 14 September 1998) was a first-class cricketer who played for South Australia from 1941 to 1953. He toured New Zealand with the Australian team in 1949–50.

Lance Duldig

Duldig on a 1951 card
Personal information
Full name	Lance Desmond Duldig
Born	21 February 1922 Eudunda, South Australia
Died	14 September 1998 (aged 76) Beaumont, South Australia
Batting	Right-handed
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1940–41 to 1952–53	South Australia
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 40 Runs scored 2107 Batting average 31.44 100s/50s 1/12 Top score 121 not out Balls bowled 8 Wickets 0 Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling – Catches/stumpings 16/0
Source: Cricinfo, 22 June 2016

Cricket career

A right-handed middle-order batsman, Lance Duldig captained the South Australian schoolboys team in 1937.[1] He made his first-class debut for South Australia on his nineteenth birthday in 1941.[2] He enlisted later that year and served with the 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion in New Guinea.[3] His recovery after the war was hampered by malaria,[2] and his second first-class match did not come until 1948–49, when he began five seasons as a regular member of the South Australian team.

He scored consistently, making nearly 2000 runs in the five seasons, but with only one century, 121 not out against Victoria in 1949–50.[2] He was selected in the Australian team that toured New Zealand in 1949–50 under Bill Brown, but made only 80 runs in four first-class matches in the damp conditions.[4]

His attractive unbeaten 70 against MCC in 1950–51 was described punningly in one British paper as "far from a dull dig".[5] The next season, he top-scored in South Australia's second innings against the West Indians, making 66 out of a total of 155 on a turning pitch.[6] South Australia won the Sheffield Shield in his last season, 1952–53, but he lost form and missed the last match in which South Australia clinched the title.[7]

See also

• List of South Australian representative cricketers

References

1. "Ridings, Duldig for New Zealand". The Advertiser: 10. 5 January 1950. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
2. The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 151.
3. "Service Record: Duldig, Lance Desmond". www.ww2roll.gov.au. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
4. Wisden 1951, p. 829.
5. Wisden 1999, p. 1477.
6. "South Australia v West Indians, 1951–52". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
7. Wisden 1954, p. 851.

External links

• Lance Duldig at CricketArchive (subscription required)
• Lance Duldig at ESPNcricinfo