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Reginald Henshall Brindley Bettington (born 24 February 1900, Merriwa, New South Wales,〔Bill Francis, ''Tom Lowry: Leader in a Thousand'', Trio, Wellington, 2010, p. 68.〕 died 24 June 1969, Gisborne, New Zealand) was an Australian first-class cricketer and medical specialist. ==Early life and Oxford== Reg Bettington was brought up on the family sheep station near Merriwa and attended The King's School, Parramatta from the age of 11, where he excelled at Latin and Greek and played for several years in the First XI cricket team.〔Francis, p. 68.〕 He went up to New College, Oxford University in 1919,〔Francis, p. 68.〕 and played cricket regularly for Oxford University for the next four seasons. At 19, he was six-foot three and an imposing figure. "A very tall, very dark young man strode through the New College gates. We watched in awe," E.W. Swanton later wrote.〔Quoted in Francis, p. 70.〕 A leg-spinner and useful lower-order batsman, in his first match Bettington took 5 for 48 in Warwickshire's second innings. Alongside him for the Oxford team, also making their first-class debuts, were Douglas Jardine and R. C. Robertson-Glasgow.〔(Oxford University v Warwickshire 1920 )〕 In his second match he took 5 for 52 in the second innings against Middlesex.〔(Oxford University v Middlesex 1920 )〕 In his third match he took 5 for 48 in Essex's second innings, including a hat-trick.〔(Oxford University v Essex 1920 )〕 In his fourth match he took seven wickets against Free Foresters,〔(Oxford University v Free Foresters 1920 )〕 in his fifth, 7 for 47 and 5 for 52 against Somerset,〔(Oxford University v Somerset 1920 )〕 and in his sixth, 8 for 67 and 5 for 61 against Surrey.〔(Surrey v Oxford University 1920 )〕 At this stage Oxford had won five consecutive matches. In the next match, a loss to MCC, he took only three wickets, but it brought his first-class wicket tally to 50 in only his seventh match.〔(MCC v Oxford University 1920 )〕 He was selected for Gentlemen in both their matches. As well as his cricket Blue in 1920 he also won his Rugby Blue and golf Blue.〔Francis, p. 71.〕 He took 62 wickets at an average of 17.64 in the 1920 season. His form was less spectacular in 1921 and 1922 (35 wickets at 27.62 and 33 at 22.87), although he hit his first first-class century, 105 in 60 minutes, against H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI in 1921.〔(H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI v Oxford University 1921 )〕 In 1923, however, when he captained Oxford, he took 61 wickets at 16.55〔(Reg Bettington bowling by season )〕 and led Oxford to victory in their annual match against Cambridge, when he took 3 for 19 and 8 for 66, and Oxford won by an innings and 227 runs.〔(Oxford University v Cambridge University 1923 )〕 Jardine and Robertson-Glasgow were also in the team against Cambridge, also playing their last games for Oxford. Over the four seasons Bettington played 40 matches for Oxford, taking 182 wickets at 19.38,〔(Reg Bettington bowling by team )〕 as well as scoring 1351 runs at 24.12.〔(Reg Bettington batting by team )〕 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「Reg Bettington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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