Eddie Dawson
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Edward William Dawson was an English
cricket
er who played in five Tests
from 1928 to 1930.
A batsman whose studious technique made full use of his talent, Dawson excelled for Eton, scoring 159 in the traditional fixture against Harrow, and earned his blue at Cambridge as a freshman, captaining the University in 1927. He played his county cricket for Leicestershire, captaining the county for four seasons and toured with MCC to South Africa in 1927/8 and New Zealand in 1929/30. He made 55 in his last test, at Auckland, opening the innings with Ted Bowley. He scored 12,597 first-class runs with 14 centuries, the highest being a knock of 146 against Gloucestershire. His swansong being a chanceless 91 against the Australians in 1934. As a member of the Coldstream Guards during World War 2, his duties included guarding Rudolf Hess in Sussex. In his later years he was a creative director of the Outward Bound movement.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played in five Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
from 1928 to 1930.
A batsman whose studious technique made full use of his talent, Dawson excelled for Eton, scoring 159 in the traditional fixture against Harrow, and earned his blue at Cambridge as a freshman, captaining the University in 1927. He played his county cricket for Leicestershire, captaining the county for four seasons and toured with MCC to South Africa in 1927/8 and New Zealand in 1929/30. He made 55 in his last test, at Auckland, opening the innings with Ted Bowley. He scored 12,597 first-class runs with 14 centuries, the highest being a knock of 146 against Gloucestershire. His swansong being a chanceless 91 against the Australians in 1934. As a member of the Coldstream Guards during World War 2, his duties included guarding Rudolf Hess in Sussex. In his later years he was a creative director of the Outward Bound movement.