Christopher Duckworth

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Chris Duckworth South Africa (RSA)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	-
	Tests	First-class
Matches	2	77
Runs scored	28	2572
Batting average	7.00	22.96
100s/50s	-/-	3/10
Top score	13	158
Balls bowled	-	-
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	3/-	91/13
Test debut: 15 February 1957 Last Test: 1 March 1957 Source: [1]

Christopher Anthony Russell Duckworth (born March 22, 1933, Kwekwe, Rhodesia) is a former South African cricketer who played in two Tests in 1957.

A right-hand batsman and wicketkeeper, Duckworth was unfortunate to play his cricket at a time when South Africa had, in John Waite, one of the outstanding wicketkeeper-batsmen of the period. As a consequence he played only two Tests, both against the 1956-57 English cricket team, being selected as a batsman, with Waite keeping wicket. He scored only 28 runs, reaching double figures once, but when Waite was injured in the second match, Russell Endean rather than Duckworth took over behind the stumps.

In first-class cricket, Duckworth played two seasons from 1952-53 for Natal, scoring a century in his second match. In 1954-55 he switched to Rhodesia, where he remained until he retired in 1963.

He was reserve wicketkeeper on two overseas tours, both to England, in 1955 and 1960, but was not picked for any of the Tests on either tour. He hit his highest first-class score, 158, against Northamptonshire on the 1955 tour.