ted dexter Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
ted dexter is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Edward Ralph Dexter
Born
May 15, 1935, Milan, Italy
Died
August 25, 2021, Wolverhampton, England, (aged 86 years old)
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Allrounder
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 62 | - | - | - |
Inn | 102 | - | - | - |
Runs | 4502 | - | - | - |
Avg | 47.89 | - | - | - |
SR | 0.0 | - | - | - |
HS | 205 | - | - | - |
NO | 8 | - | - | - |
100s | 9 | - | - | - |
50s | 27 | - | - | - |
4s | 496 | - | - | - |
6s | 16 | - | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 62 | - | - | - |
Inn | 80 | - | - | - |
Balls | 5127 | - | - | - |
Runs | 2306 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 66 | - | - | - |
BBI | 10 / 4 | - | - | - |
BBM | 77 / 6 | - | - | - |
Eco | 2.7 | - | - | - |
Avg | 34.94 | - | - | - |
5W | 0 | - | - | - |
10W | 0 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- England
- Cambridge University
- Sussex
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
if we go down the memory lane to have a look back at his early days, Dexter was born in Milan, Italy. However, his family shifted over to England during the second World War. Interestingly, Dexter did serve for the National Service when the Malayan Emergency happened in 1956-57. Eventually, Dexter made his First-Class debut for Cambridge University against a strong Surrey line-up. He then moved over to play for Sussex.
After a string of fine performances, Dexter got the chance to wear the white flannels against New Zealand in 1958. He straightaway made an impact with an enterprising knock of 52. However, he was not picked for the tour of Australia. He though was later asked to join an injury ravaged English side in Australia. He didn't make his presence felt on that tour. But, soon, composed his first hundred against New Zealand in their own den.
Unfortunately, he was then down with a bout of jaundice. The selectors still reposed faith in him as he was selected for the tour of West Indies. It was during that tour when he passed the trial by fire of facing up to a fine West Indies' pace attack with scores of 136 not out and 77 at Bridgetown and Port of Spain, respectively. In the Test series against Australia in 1961, Dexter became a household name. In particular, historians fondly remember his stupendous innings of 180 at Edgbaston that helped England to escape with a draw. He stitched a 161-run stand with Ken Barrington in which the latter's contribution was just 48.
However, there was a touch of disappointment, too. Dexter smashed a quick-fire 76 in the fourth Test at The Oval. But, once he was dismissed, rest of them fell like a house of cards and the hosts lost by 54 runs. He reached great heights against Pakistan when he averaged 89.2. It was also a series when England's selectors seemed to be playing musical chairs while appointing captains. Dexter led for three Tests and Colin Cowdrey in one.
Dexter was in good form in Australia in 1962-63. It was a series that also saw Dexter captaining the side. One of his finest innings in that series was his 93 at the MCG. He played some power-packed drives and enthralled the crowd during that time. The 1963 series against West Indies turned out to be an exciting one as well. Even though, England were beaten, Dexter was praised for his fearless approach to the game.
In the second Test at Lord's, Hall and Griffth came steaming into the crease. Dexter though, met fire-with-fire and cracked a memorable innings of 70 in just 75 balls! In the 1964 Ashes, Dexter made a tactical mistake by bringing Fred Trueman into the attack in place Fred Titmus, who was bowling superbly. Peter Burge smashed his way to 160 and turned the game on its head as England lost.
By 1964, Dexter decided to contest for general elections. However, he lost to Jim Callaghan. It meant that he went on to tour South Africa. He was in excellent form in that series. Dexter's career then almost ended by a freak accident involving his jaguar. Dexter still tried to make a comeback into the side in the late 1960s, but that didn't go well.
After retirement, Dexter turned out to be a fine journalist. He also had a penchant for fast cars. He served as England's Chairman of Selectors from 1989 to 1993. For a while, he was also appointed as the Chairman of MCC. Dexter married model, Susan Georgina Longfield, in the late 1950s.
Bharath Ramaraj
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Wisden overview
There was no more exhilarating sight in English cricket than Ted Dexter when he was savaging fast bowling. Though he had the patience and technique to develop a long innings or fight a rearguard action according to the position of a match - six of his nine Test hundreds were bigger than 140 - it was the naked power of his driving on the counter-attack that fired the imagination. An athletic six-footer with something of the feline grace and strength of the golfer Tiger Woods, Dexter's most famous innings was the 70 he smashed, from 73 balls, off Wes Hall and Charlie Griffith, after coming in when England were 0 for 1 in the 1963 Lord's against West Indies. In county cricket, Dexter was the only batsman who habitually dominated Derek Underwood, regularly scoring hundreds for Sussex against Kent. In 1968, on his first Championship appearance after two years of semi-retirement, he blasted them for a devastating 203 which immediately won him back his Test place. Dexter was a magnificent allround games player. His next-best game was golf - he won the Oxford & Cambridge President's Putter three times, the last time at the age of 52 - and he was arguably the leading cricketer-golfer Britain has ever produced. Early retirement gave "Lord Ted" scope to turn his restless mind to many interests, among them forming a PR company and covering cricket as a broadcaster and writer. In 1989 a new cricket post in cricket was created for him, the chairmanship of the "England Committee", for which he did much important groundwork for the future. But in his twin role as chairman of selectors, his judgment let him down. A sequence of glaring mistakes, culminating in the omission of David Gower and Jack Russell from Graham Gooch's 1992-93 touring team to India, led to Dexter's resignation in 1993 after Australia thrashed England for the third time in successive Ashes series. John Thicknesse