| Ken Suttle | |
| Fullname: | Kenneth George Suttle |
| Birth Date: | 25 August 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Hammersmith, England |
| Death Place: | Port Louis, Mauritius |
| Batting: | Left-handed |
| Bowling: | Slow left-arm orthodox |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 612 |
| Runs1: | 30225 |
| Bat Avg1: | 31.09 |
| 100S/50S1: | 49/156 |
| Top Score1: | 204 |
| Deliveries1: | 21186 |
| Wickets1: | 266 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 32.80 |
| Fivefor1: | 1 |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | 6-64 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 384/3 |
| Column2: | List A |
| Matches2: | 55 |
| Runs2: | 1075 |
| Bat Avg2: | 22.39 |
| 100S/50S2: | 2/3 |
| Top Score2: | 104 |
| Deliveries2: | 738 |
| Wickets2: | 16 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 28.18 |
| Fivefor2: | – |
| Tenfor2: | n/a |
| Best Bowling2: | 4-24 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 12/- |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33137/33137.html CricketArchive |
| Position: | Winger |
| Youthyears1: | 1947–1948 |
| Youthclubs1: | Worthing |
| Years1: | 1948 |
| Caps1: | 0 |
| Goals1: | 0 |
| Years2: | 1948–1949 |
| Caps2: | 3 |
| Goals2: | 0 |
| Years3: | – |
Kenneth George Suttle (25 August 1928 – 25 March 2005) was an English cricketer.
Ken Suttle was primarily a left-handed batsman but was also a useful slow left-arm bowler. His first-class career with Sussex lasted from 1949 to 1971. He played in 612 first-class matches. This included an unbroken sequence of 423 consecutive County Championship matches between 1954 and 1969, which is still the record number.[1]
Suttle was a quick-footed, unorthodox batsman, endlessly fidgeting at the crease between deliveries.[2] He made 30225 first-class runs at an average of 31.09, with 49 centuries, reaching 1000 runs in 17 successive seasons from 1953 to 1969.[2] In 1962 he scored more than 2000 runs in the County Championship, and made his highest score of 204 not out against Kent.[3] He took 266 wickets at 32.80, with best innings figures of 6 for 64 against Worcestershire in 1970.[4]
He played in 55 List A one-day matches, and was a member of the Sussex side which won the Gillette Cup in 1963 and 1964 (the first two years of the competition). He won the Man of the Match award in a quarter-final of the Gillette Cup in 1968, scoring 100 in a seven-run victory for Sussex over Northamptonshire.[5]
He toured the West Indies with England in 1953-54, but never played in a Test. He stands equal third with Les Berry in the list of players with most first-class runs not to have played a Test.[6]
After leaving Sussex he played for Suffolk for two seasons, ran an equipment shop, then coached at Christ's Hospital. He umpired a handful of first-class university matches in 1983.[2]
Suttle was educated at Worthing High School.[7] In the 1950s he played football as well as cricket. He made three first-team appearances as a winger for Brighton & Hove Albion FC in 1949.[2] He was player/manager of Arundel F.C. when they won consecutive Sussex County League Division One titles in the 1957/58 and 1958/59 seasons.
He died in 2005 while on holiday in Mauritius.[2]