Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Peter Michael Dodds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Durban, Natal, South Africa | 26 November 1933||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1955-56 | Transvaal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1956-57 to 1963-64 | Natal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source:CricketArchive,30 December 2016 |
Peter Michael Dodds (born 26 November 1933) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket in South Africa from 1955 to 1964.
Born in Durban,Dodds attended Durban High School. [1] He played one match for Transvaal in 1955 before moving to Natal,where he spent the rest of his first-class career.
A left-arm spinner,Dodds had modest success until 1958-59,when he took 35 wickets at an average of 18.37,the third-highest tally of wickets in South Africa that season. [2] In a friendly match at the end of the season against a Border and Eastern Province Combined XI he took 6 for 37 and 7 for 51 to give Natal an innings victory. [3]
He played irregularly over the next three seasons,but played throughout 1962-63,taking 36 wickets at 21.72. [4] In Natal's ten-wicket victory over Eastern Province he took 5 for 45 and 5 for 73. [5] Natal won the Currie Cup,with five victories in six matches. Dodds was widely considered unfortunate not to be selected for the 1963-64 tour of Australia and New Zealand. [6] [7]
He played his last season of first-class cricket in 1963-64.
Robert Graeme Pollock is a former cricketer for South Africa,Transvaal and Eastern Province. A member of a famous cricketing family,Pollock is widely regarded as one of South Africa's greatest ever cricketers,and as one of the finest batsmen to have played Test cricket. Despite Pollock's international career being cut short at the age of 26 by the sporting boycott of South Africa,and all but one of his 23 Test matches being against England and Australia,the leading cricket nations of the day,he broke a number of records. His completed career Test match batting average of 60.97 remains fourth best after Sir Donald Bradman's (99.94),Steve Smith's,and Adam Voges's averages.
Joseph Lovell Cox was a South African Test cricket player.
Geoffrey Merton Griffin was a Test cricketer who toured England with the South African cricket team in 1960,appearing in two Test matches. A right-arm,fast bowler and lower order batsman,his selection for the tour was controversial,because of his suspect bowling action –some of his deliveries were judged to be thrown rather than bowled. The core of his problem was that,due to a childhood accident,he was unable to fully straighten his right arm.
Trevor Leslie Goddard was a Test cricketer. An all-rounder,he played 41 Test matches for South Africa from 1955 to 1970. He captained the young South African team on its five-month tour of Australia and New Zealand in the 1963–64 season,levelling the series with Australia,and was also captain in 1964–65 against England in South Africa.
Stanley Keppel "Shunter" Coen was a South African cricketer who played in two Tests in 1927–28. He was born in Heilbron,Orange Free State,and died in Durban,Natal.
Arthur Lennox Ochse was a South African cricketer who played in three Tests in 1927–28 and 1929.
Ivan Julian "Jack" Siedle was a South African cricketer who played in 18 Tests from 1927–28 to 1935–36.
Lennox Sydney Brown was a South African cricketer who played in two Tests in 1931–32.
Michael George Melle was a South African cricketer who played in seven Tests from 1950 to 1953. Melle was educated at Hilton College.
Edward Russell Henry Fuller was a South African cricketer who played in seven Tests from 1953 to 1957. He was born in Worcester,Western Cape and died in Milnerton,Cape Town.
David Bartlett Pithey was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in eight Tests for South Africa from 1963 to 1967. As well as playing for Rhodesia and Western Province,he played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Northamptonshire. Christopher Martin-Jenkins described him as "spasmodically brilliant". His brother,Tony,also played Test cricket for South Africa;they played together in five of the Tests on the 1963–64 tour of Australasia.
Michael John Macaulay is a former South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1965.
Peter Walter Edward Rawson is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He played ten ODIs for Zimbabwe between 1983 and 1987.
MornéMorkel is a South African-Australian cricketer who played international cricket between 2006 and 2018. He is a right-arm fast bowler and lower order left-handed batsman.
This article describes the history of South African cricket from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the start of South Africa's cricket isolation in 1970.
Dr Basil George von Brandis Melle was a South African first-class cricketer who played as a right-handed batsman and bowled right-arm medium pace and later leg breaks. David Frith saw Melle as playing a role in the origins of bodyline bowling through his 'inswingers with three short-legs'.
Lynton Morby-Smith is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1958 to 1967.
Alfred Edward Cooper was a South African cricketer who played at first-class level for Griqualand West and Transvaal.
Keshav Atmanand Maharaj is a South African professional cricketer who plays for the South Africa national team in Tests,One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket. He serves as the vice-captain of the side in limited overs cricket. He made his debut in first-class cricket in 2006 and his Test debut in November 2016. He is a left-arm orthodox spin bowler and lower-order batsman. He plays for KwaZulu-Natal and Dolphins in domestic cricket. In June 2021,Maharaj became just the second bowler for South Africa to take a hat-trick in a Test match. In September 2021,Maharaj captained South Africa for the first time,in the second ODI against Sri Lanka. In September 2021,Maharaj made his T20I debut against Sri Lanka,captaining the team in his debut match. Maharaj holds the joint world record for the most runs scored in an over in Test history,scoring 28 off one of Joe Root's overs during England's tour of South Africa in 2019.
Warrick Francis Sinclair Fynn is a South African former first-class cricketer.