Tony Sutton (cricketer)

Michael Antony Sutton (29 March 1921 – 28 June 2019) played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1946 and 1947 and also appeared in a single first-class match for Somerset in 1948, playing against Oxford University.[1] He was born at Weymouth, Dorset. CricketArchive lists him as "Tony Sutton" and this is confirmed in a book published in 2018 that includes material from interviews with him.[2] His death was announced in The Times on 2 July 2019.[3]

Tony Sutton

Personal information
Full name	Michael Antony Sutton
Born	29 March 1921 Weymouth, Dorset, England
Died	28 June 2019 (aged 98)
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm off-spin
Role	Bowler
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1946–47	Oxford University
1948	Somerset
First-class debut	22 May 1946 Oxford University v Yorkshire
Last First-class	25 June 1948 Somerset v Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 19 Runs scored 144 Batting average 8.00 100s/50s –/– Top score 30 Balls bowled 2678 Wickets 47 Bowling average 25.91 5 wickets in innings 1 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 5/63 Catches/stumpings 23/–
Source: CricketArchive, 27 February 2011

Sutton was educated at Ampleforth College and at Worcester College, Oxford.[4] As a cricketer he was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm off-spin bowler. In the 1946 season, he was the most economical of Oxford's regular bowlers, with 31 wickets at an average of 22.93 runs each. The best bowling figures of his career came in the match against Leicestershire when he took five second innings wickets for 63 runs, his only five-wicket return.[5] He took three wickets in the 1946 University match against Cambridge.[6]

Sutton played for the Oxford University side again in 10 matches in 1947 but his bowling was less effective and the English-born Canadian off-spin bowler Basil Robinson was preferred in the team for the 1947 University match.[7] In 1948 he played his one first-class match for Somerset and in 1954 he played once in the Minor Counties for Devon as well as in two other minor matches.

References

1. "Tony Sutton". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
2. Stephen Hill and Barry Phillips. Somerset Cricketers, 1946–1970 (2018 ed.). Halsgrove. pp. 67–69. ISBN 978-0-85704-325-2.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
3. "Deaths". The Times (72888). London. 2 July 2019. p. 53.
4. "Other Matches at Lord's, 1946". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1947 ed.). Wisden. pp. 209–210.
5. "Scorecard: Oxford University v Leicestershire". www.cricketarchive.com. 5 June 1946. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
6. "Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 6 July 1946. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
7. "The Universities in 1947". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1948 ed.). Wisden. p. 560.

External links

• Tony Sutton at ESPNcricinfo