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Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk, CBE (born 8 October 1931) is a former schoolmaster and international cricketer. He was also a close friend of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, about whom he has spoken and written extensively. == Early life and cricket career == Silk was born in Eureka, California. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, representing Cambridge University at cricket. A useful opener or middle-order batsman, he scored centuries in the matches against Oxford University in 1953 and 1954, and captained Cambridge University in 1955. He went on to play first-class cricket for Somerset as an amateur during the school summer holidays, but gave priority to his teaching career. He toured East Africa with the MCC in 1957–58, and captained the MCC on tours to South America in 1958–59 and to the USA and Canada in 1959 and 1967, none of which included first-class matches. He also captained a strong MCC team on a tour of New Zealand in 1960–61, which included 10 first-class matches, three of them against the full-strength New Zealand team. After the New Zealand tour he retired from first-class cricket. His highest first-class score was 126 for Cambridge University against the MCC in 1953.〔(Cambridge University v MCC 1953 )〕 He very seldom bowled his leg-breaks, and his single first-class wicket came in his second-last match, when he bowled Gerry Alexander in the MCC match against the Governor-General's XI in Auckland.〔(NZ Governor-General's XI v MCC 1960–61 )〕 He later wrote two instructional books on playing cricket. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dennis Silk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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