Tom Dollery
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | - | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 4 | 436 |
| Runs scored | 72 | 24414 |
| Batting average | 10.28 | 37.50 |
| 100s/50s | -/- | 50/128 |
| Top score | 37 | 212 |
| Balls bowled | - | 48 |
| Wickets | - | - |
| Bowling average | - | - |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | - |
| Best bowling | - | - |
| Catches/stumpings | 1/- | 290/14 |
Horace Edgar "Tom" Dollery, born October 15, 1914 and died January 20, 1987, was a cricketer who played for England and Warwickshire.
Born at Reading, Berkshire and playing Minor County cricket for Berkshire at the age of 15, Dollery joined Warwickshire in 1934 and was a mainstay of the team until retirement in 1955. His forceful middle order batting earned him more than 1,000 runs in 15 consecutive first-class seasons from 1935 to 1955.
Dollery's principal claim to fame, though, was as one of the first professional captains in English first-class cricket and certainly the first successful one. Appointed Warwickshire captain in 1949, he retained the post for seven seasons and in 1951 led the county to their first County Championship title since 1911, and only their second ever.
Dollery's career in Test matches was less successful. He played for England four times between 1947 and 1950, but scored only 72 runs in seven innings.
He was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1952.
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