H. D. G. Leveson-Gower
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |
| Bowling type | Leg break | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 3 | 277 |
| Runs scored | 95 | 7638 |
| Batting average | 23.75 | 23.72 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 4/42 |
| Top score | 31 | 155 |
| Balls bowled | 0 | 2261 |
| Wickets | 0 | 46 |
| Bowling average | n/a | 29.95 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 3 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 |
| Best bowling | n/a | 6/49 |
| Catches/stumpings | 1/0 | 103/0 |
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Test debut: 1 January 1910 |
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Sir Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson-Gower (pronounced "Loosen Gore") (born 8 May 1873 in Titsey Place, Surrey, died 1 February 1954 in London) was an English cricketer who played for Oxford University and Surrey as well as England. He captained England in all three of the Test matches he played, winning one and losing two against South Africa in 1909/10, with Frederick Fane captaining on the other two Test matches of the series. Leveson-Gower was knighted for his services to cricket in 1953. He was president of Surrey in 1929.
Leveson-Gower was nicknamed "Shrimp" but few cricket sources refer to him by anything other than his initials, hence the title of this article. During a tour of America in 1897 organised by Plum Warner[1] that Leveson-Gower took part in, the Philadelphian cricket poet Ralph D. Paine published the following piece of humorous verse concerning the pronunciation of his surname:
- At one end stocky Jessop frowned,
- The human catapult
- Who wrecks the roofs of distant towns
- When set in his assault.
- His mate was that perplexing man
- We know as "Looshun-Gore",
- It isn’t spelt at all that way,
- We don’t know what it’s for.
- But as with Cholmondeley and St John
- The alphabet is mixed,
- And Yankees cannot help but ask -
- "Why don't you get it fixed?""[2]
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| Preceded by: Archie MacLaren |
English national cricket captain 1909/10 |
Succeeded by: Johnny Douglas |
[edit] Notes
- ^ Warner's Wisden obituary refers
- ^ The Cricket Captains of England, Alan Gibson, 1989, The Pavilion Library, ISBN 1-85145-390-3, p114
