Arthur Burlton

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Arthur Burlton England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling type	Right arm off-break
First-class record
Matches	5
Runs scored	114
Batting average	12.66
100s/50s	0/0
Top score	35*
Balls bowled	54
Wickets	1
Bowling average	38.00
5 wickets in innings	0
10 wickets in match	0
Best Bowling	1-22
Catches/Stumpings	3/0
First class debut: 24 May 1922 Last first class game: 8 June 1922 Source: Cricinfo

Arthur Temple Burlton (10 March 1900 - 10 February 1980) was an Indian-born English cricketer who played five first-class matches for Worcestershire in 1922. He attended Repton School, but did not get into the cricket team there.^[1]

He scored 20 and 17 on debut against Sussex, but his best match was his second, against Glamorgan at Cardiff Arms Park. He scored 32 and 35 not out, in the first innings putting on 91 with Harry Higgins to bring Worcestershire from 43/4 up to a position where they were able to record a 44-run victory. In the six remaining innings of his first-class career, however, he made only ten runs, being dismissed for 0, 5, 1, 0, 4 and 0.

Burlton's only wicket (that of Peter Perrin) came in an otherwise disastrous match against Essex at Leyton. Worcestershire were bowled out for 49, then saw Essex pile up 521 in reply. Essex won game by the little matter of an innings and 297 runs; Worcestershire have not been defeated by a larger margin since that date.^[2]

Burlton also played at minor counties level for Devon, and in 1955 wrote a book, Cricketing Courtesy.^[1] Outside cricket he reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.

Burlton was born in Coimbatore, Madras; he died a month short of his 80th birthday at Ballochneck, Thornhill, Stirling, Scotland.