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Full name | John Henry Dixon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Westbourne, Hampshire, England | 3 March 1954|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1973 | Oxford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1973–1981 | Gloucestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1978–1988 | Wiltshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,26 April 2020 |
John Henry Dixon (born 3 March 1954) is an English former first-class cricketer active from 1973 to 1988 who played for Gloucestershire,Oxford University and Wiltshire. He was born in Bournemouth. He appeared in 16 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman who bowled right arm medium-fast pace. He scored 77 runs with a highest score of 13* and held six catches. He took 21 wickets with a best analysis of five for 44. [1] He was one of the bowlers during the then world record partnership for the second wicket between Warwickshire's Rohan Kanhai and John Jameson at Edgbaston in 1974. [2] Dixon is the great-nephew of Gee Langdon and became a publisher and author. [3]
Between 1984 and 1992 he was the publisher of The Cricket Diary,which included,amongst much other cricket information and records,weekly quotations,illustrations and most well-known cricketers' birthdays. His First Peel The Otter, [4] a spoof cookery book,contained unfeasible recipes of a surreal,whimsical or gruesome nature. [5] He subsequently contributed to The Marmite Cookbook [6] and The Bumper Book of Marmite. [7] Playwright Dougie Blaxland cites him as a major influence.
He plays bass guitar in The Disintegraters [8] with,amongst others,Henry Marsh of the band Sailor,Stuart Ryan [9] and Stephen (Austin) Clark. [10]
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