Dudley Fairbridge Pope was an English

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 cricket

Cricket

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er. A right-handed batsman, Pope was born in Barnes and is recorded in the 1911 Census as living in Richmond, Surrey at age four. He played 159 first class matches for Essex and Gloucestershire between 1925 and his death in a car accident

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 in 1934. He scored 6,557 runs at 26.33, including seven centuries, and formed a "solid professional nucleus" along with such players as Jim Cutmore, Laurie Eastman, Jack O'Connor

Jack O'Connor (English cricketer)

Jack O'Connor was an English cricketer who played in four Tests from 1929 to 1930....

, Jack Russell and Stan Nichols

Stan Nichols

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. In 1933 Pope, along with many of these players, scored over 1,000 runs, the first time six batsmen had topped 1,000 in a season.

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