Dallas Page (cricketer)
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| Batting style | Right-hand batsman |
| Bowling type | Right-arm unknown |
| First-class record | |
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| Matches | 106 |
| Runs scored | 2993 |
| Batting average | 18.70 |
| 100s/50s | 1/11 |
| Top score | 116 |
| Balls bowled | 57 |
| Wickets | - |
| Bowling average | - |
| 5 wickets in innings | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - |
| Best Bowling | - |
| Catches/Stumpings | 75/0 |
| First class debut: 6 May 1933 Last first class game: 1 September 1936 Source: CricketArchive |
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Dallas Alexander Chancellor Page, born at Cheltenham on April 11, 1911 and died at Cirencester on September 2, 1936, was a cricketer who played for and captained Gloucestershire.
Page was a right-handed middle order batsman and a brilliant cover fieldsman, and played fairly regularly for Gloucestershire in County Championship matches in 1934, having made his debut the previous year. When the successful Beverley Lyon stood down from the captaincy after six seasons at the end of 1934, Page, as the only regular amateur player in the side, was picked to succeed him for 1935.
Page's first season as captain was not a success, and Wisden put some of the responsibility for a drop to 15th in the Championship on Page's inexperienced handling of a bowling attack that was in transition following the retirement of Charlie Parker. In 1936, however, Gloucestershire rise to fourth in the final table was also due in part, Wisden said, to Page's enthusiasm and team-building.
Page himself was a modest performer, with a career average of less than 20. He scored 1,000 runs in a season once only, in 1935, and made only one century.
He was killed in a car crash near his home at Cirencester while returning from the final match of the 1936 season, where he had led his side to victory over Nottinghamshire at the Wagon Works ground Gloucester, and had taken the catch that finished the match.
[edit] References
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1934-37 editions
