| Lance Duldig | |
| Country: | Australia |
| Fullname: | Lance Desmond Duldig |
| Birth Date: | 1922 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Eudunda, South Australia |
| Death Place: | Beaumont, South Australia |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Club1: | South Australia |
| Year1: | 1940–41 to 1952–53 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 40 |
| Runs1: | 2107 |
| Bat Avg1: | 31.44 |
| 100S/50S1: | 1/12 |
| Top Score1: | 121 not out |
| Deliveries1: | 8 |
| Wickets1: | 0 |
| Bowl Avg1: | – |
| Fivefor1: | – |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | – |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 16/0 |
| Date: | 22 June 2016 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/8067.html Cricinfo |
Lance Desmond Duldig (21 February 1922 – 14 September 1998) was a first-class cricketer who played for South Australia from 1941 to 1953. He toured New Zealand with the Australian team in 1949–50.
A right-handed middle-order batsman, Lance Duldig captained the South Australian schoolboys team in 1937.[1] He made his first-class debut for South Australia on his nineteenth birthday in 1941.[2] He enlisted later that year and served with the 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion in New Guinea.[3] His recovery after the war was hampered by malaria,[2] and his second first-class match did not come until 1948–49, when he began five seasons as a regular member of the South Australian team.
He scored consistently, making nearly 2000 runs in the five seasons, but with only one century, 121 not out against Victoria in 1949–50.[2] He was selected in the Australian team that toured New Zealand in 1949–50 under Bill Brown, but made only 80 runs in four first-class matches in the damp conditions.[4]
His attractive unbeaten 70 against MCC in 1950–51 was described punningly in one British paper as "far from a dull dig".[5] The next season, he top-scored in South Australia's second innings against the West Indians, making 66 out of a total of 155 on a turning pitch.[6] South Australia won the Sheffield Shield in his last season, 1952–53, but he lost form and missed the last match in which South Australia clinched the title.[7]