Tom Chettleburgh Explained

Tom Chettleburgh
Country:New Zealand
Fullname:Verdon Joseph Thomas Chettleburgh
Birth Date:19 November 1912
Birth Place:Dunedin, New Zealand
Death Place:Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Batting:Right-handed
Bowling:Right-arm leg-spin
Club1:Otago
Columns:1
Column1:First-class
Matches1:19
Runs1:733
Bat Avg1:26.17
100S/50S1:0/2
Top Score1:84
Deliveries1:603
Wickets1:11
Bowl Avg1:37.63
Fivefor1:0
Tenfor1:0
Best Bowling1:2/41
Catches/Stumpings1:12/–
Date:19 February
Year:2020
Source:http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36693.html ESPNcricinfo

Verdon Joseph Thomas Chettleburgh (19 November 1912  - 4 September 1960) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played nineteen first-class matches for Otago between 1932 and 1941.[1]

Tom Chettleburgh attended Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin and worked as a bookkeeper.[2] [3] He made his highest first-class score in Otago's victory over Canterbury in the 1936-37 Plunket Shield, when he scored 39 (the top score in Otago's first innings) and 84.[4] He was later a member of the board of the New Zealand Cricket Council. He died in 1960 at Lower Hutt; an obituary was published in the New Zealand Cricket Almanack.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Verdon Chettleburgh . 7 May 2016 . ESPN Cricinfo.
  2. Hooker . Sports Snaps: No. 70: T. Chettleburgh . Evening Star . 5 November 1937 . 5 .
  3. McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 33. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
  4. Web site: Otago v Canterbury 1936-37 . CricketArchive . 18 February 2020.