Anthony Catt
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Anthony Waldron Catt (2 October 1933 – 6 August 2018) was an English cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper for Kent County Cricket Club. He made his first-class cricket debut in 1954 against Oxford University.[1][2] He died in August 2018 aged 84.[3]
Early life
Catt was born at Dormansland in Surrey where his father was a chauffeur.Template:Efn He was educated at Tower Ramparts Secondary Modern School in Ipswich.[4]
Cricket career
Catt had played for the Army cricket team in 1952 and began appearing for Kent's Second XI in 1954, having taken part in a pre-season trial.[4][5] He won his Second XI cap in 1955, and played occasionally in the First XI until 1958, deputising along with Derek Ufton when Godfrey Evans was playing for England.[2][6] On Evans' retirement in 1959 Catt and Ufton shared the wicket-keeping duties until Ufton's retirement in 1962 allowed Catt to play more games, appearing 21 times in 1962, 30 in 1963 and 20 in 1964.[4][5] He scored 905 runs in 1962, a career high.[5] Catt moved to South Africa after the 1964 season and was replaced as Kent's main wicket-keeper by Alan Knott who had begun to establish himself during 1964.[6][7] He played 12 matches for Western Province in South Africa.[4]
In August 1955, when Northamptonshire made 374 in their first innings against Kent the total included 73 extras and Catt conceded 48 byes and 23 leg byes.[5] In mitigation he was said to be suffering from the effects of "what was officially stated to be sunburn".[4][8][9][10][11] The total of byes and leg byes conceded remains a County Championship records as of 2019.[5][12]
Catt's highest score in first-class cricket came when he was used as a nightwatchman against Leicestershire in 1962. Having survived until stumps, the following day he scored 121 in the morning session, finishing with a score of 162, his only first-class century despite being considered a "class" batsman and having made a score of 201 for the Second XI in 1959.[4][8][13]
In total, Catt made 138 first-class appearances, including 118 in the County Championship and nine in the Currie Cup. He played twice for Kent in the Gillette Cup as one-day cricket became established in the early 1960s.[1][2] He scored 3,123 first-class runs and claimed 321 victims behind the stumps.[5]
Death
Catt died at Rondebosch a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa in August 2018. He was aged 84.[4][8]
Notes
References
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- ↑ a b Anthony Catt, CricInfo. Retrieved 2107-04-16.
- ↑ a b c Tony Catt, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
- ↑ Former Kent wicketkeeper Anthony Catt dies, Kent County Cricket Club, 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Cite error: Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".
- ↑ a b c d e f Shenton K (2018) Tony Catt, Obits, in Beyond the Boundaries, vol.23, p. 73.
- ↑ a b Mallett A (2010) Eleven: The Greatest Eleven of the 20th Century, p. 94. University of Queensland Press. (Available online. Retrieved 2017-04-15.)
- ↑ Alan Knott, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1970, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1970. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
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- ↑ Wisden 1956, p. 503.
- ↑ On the Boundary: Statistician David comes up with an extra special factScript error: No such module "Unsubst"., Derby Telegraph, 2009-05-20. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
- ↑ Lynch S (2006) The cheque's in the post, CricInfo, 2006-09-12. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
- ↑ Bolton P (2018) The first, tentative steps of Calum MacLeod, CricInfo, 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
- ↑ Pittard S (June 2006) The XI bolts from the blue, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
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