Major Claude John Myburgh (4 July 1911 – 10 October 1987) was an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 cricket

Cricket

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er and British Army

British Army

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 officer. Myburgh was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium

Fast bowling

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. He was born in Cheltenham

Cheltenham

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, Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....

 and was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate where he played for the college cricket team.

Myburgh made his debut for Devon

Devon County Cricket Club

Devon County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Devon and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy....

 in the 1933 Minor Counties Championship against Cornwall

Cornwall County Cricket Club

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. From 1933 to 1934, he represented Devon in five further matches, playing his final Championship match against Cornwall. In August 1933, he played his only first-class

First-class cricket

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 match for the Army

British Army cricket team

The Army cricket team is a cricket side representing the British Army. The team played a number of first-class matches between 1912 and 1939, although a combined "Army and Navy" side had played two games against a combined Oxford and Cambridge team in 1910 and 1911...

 against the touring West Indians. In this match he scored an unbeaten

Not out

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 13 runs in the Army first-innings. With the ball he took he took a single wicket, that of West Indian captain Jackie Grant

Jackie Grant

George Copeland Grant was a West Indian cricketer who captained the side through several series.Grant was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. He captained the West Indies' team in the 1930-31, 1933, 1934-35 series...

.

By 1932, Myburgh had graduated from the Royal Military College with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant and was serving in the Worcestershire Regiment

Worcestershire Regiment

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. He eventually reached the rank of Major. He had two daughters,Sarah Georgina Myburgh and Pauline Carol Myburgh, who married Sir Benjamin Slade. Their marriage ended in 1991. Myburgh died at Inholmes Court in Hartley Wintney

Hartley Wintney

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, Hampshire

Hampshire

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on 10 October 1987.