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Full name | Dennis Arlen Wainwright [upper-alpha 1] | ||||||||||||||
Born | Bermuda | 17 November 1935||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1971/72 | Bermuda | ||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,13 October 2011 |
Dennis Arlen Wainwright [upper-alpha 1] MBE (born 17 November 1935) is a Bermudian former cricketer who played as a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. He played one first-class cricket match for Bermuda against New Zealand in 1972. [1] It was the maiden first-class match to be played by the Bermuda cricket team. [2] As well as playing cricket,Wainwright was the goalkeeper for the Bermuda national football team. [3]
Wainwright was born in Bermuda in 1935 and grew up in the Flatts area of the island. [1] [3] He was educated at Harrington Sound and played island cricket for the Flatts side and for St Georges Cricket Club,opening the batting and captaining the side for a period. [4] He played from 1957 until at least 1984,including playing non-first-class matches against a numbering of touring international and English county sides and touring England,Canada and North America with Bermuda Wanders. [3] [5] On a tour of England in 1961 he was part of an opening partnership with Sheridan Raynor of 253 runs against an English Counties XI. [6]
After retirement he remained involved in St Georges' cricket [4] and was awarded an MBE in the 2005 Birthday Honours for services to sport and community on Bermuda. [7]
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