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Dudley Richard Owen-Thomas (born 20 September 1948) is an English lawyer and former first-class cricketer. ==Education and cricket career== Born in Mombasa, Kenya, Owen-Thomas went to school at King's College School, Wimbledon. He captained the First XI in 1967, scoring 815 runs at an average of 58.21, taking 48 wickets at 12.91, and leading them through their 16-match season undefeated.〔''Wisden'' 1968, p. 791.〕 He was one of the outstanding schools cricketers in 1967, winning the award for the best all-rounder in schools cricket〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Wetherell Awards )〕 and leading the batting for MCC Schools in two matches at Lord's.〔''Wisden'' 1968, pp. 354-55.〕 He played his first matches for Surrey Second XI in 1967. He spent the summer of 1968 with Surrey Second XI, playing in all 20 of their matches, scoring 658 runs at 22.68 and helping them to the title.〔''Wisden'' 1969, pp. 731, 740.〕 He went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and made his first-class debut for Cambridge University in 1969. In his sixth match, coming to the wicket at 31 for 3 after Cambridge University had followed on against Middlesex, he scored 182 not out in five and a half hours out of a team total of 322 all out.〔''Wisden'' 1970, pp. 752-53.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Cambridge University v Middlesex 1969 )〕 In his next innings he made 101 against Warwickshire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Warwickshire v Cambridge University 1969 )〕 His batting did not progress in 1970, but he had his best season as a bowler, taking 13 wickets for Cambridge at an average of 39.76, but thereafter he played purely as a batsman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Bowling in each season by Dudley Owen-Thomas )〕 He made his first-class debut for Surrey after the university season ended, top-scoring with 73 in his first innings.〔''Wisden'' 1971, p. 528.〕 In 1971 he was secretary of the Cambridge University Cricket Club, and scored 747 runs at 49.80, "hitting the ball with the full sweep of the bat".〔''Wisden'' 1972, p. 774-75.〕 In the second match of the season he made 108 not out against Leicestershire, adding 175 for the third wicket with his captain, Majid Khan, to take Cambridge to a seven-wicket victory.〔''Wisden'' 1972, p. 778.〕 In the match against Oxford University he scored 146 in just under four hours to enable Khan to declare; the match ended in a draw with Oxford nine wickets down.〔''Wisden'' 1972, p. 352-53.〕 In 1972, once again secretary to Khan, he made 373 runs at 41.44,〔''Wisden'' 1973, p. 766-67.〕 and in his last match, against Oxford, he scored 114 in a match when nobody else passed 51, and helped Cambridge to an innings victory, their first victory in the series since 1958 after 11 of the previous 12 matches had been drawn.〔''Wisden'' 1973, p. 346-47.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Oxford University v Cambridge University 1972 )〕 In 10 matches for Surrey later that season he scored two centuries, and he finished the first-class season with 962 runs at 35.62.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Batting in each season by Dudley Owen-Thomas )〕 He was named the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year for 1972. He had a sound season with Surrey in 1973, making 751 runs at 30.04, but after that his form declined. He retired from first-class cricket after the 1975 season.〔''Wisden'' 1976, p. 554.〕 He continued to play club cricket and other matches, appearing several times for Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk's XI in the 1980s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Miscellaneous matches played by Dudley Owen-Thomas )〕 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「Dudley Owen-Thomas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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