Buster Nupen

Buster Nupen
Cricket information
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
  • South African
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 17 74
Runs scored 348 1635
Batting average 14.50 17.96
100s/50s 0/2 0/8
Top score 69 89
Balls bowled 4159 14210
Wickets 50 334
Bowling average 35.75 18.19
5 wickets in innings 5 33
10 wickets in match 1 12
Best bowling 6/46 9/48
Catches/stumpings 9/- 34/-
Source: Cricinfo

Eiulf Peter "Buster" Nupen (1 January 1902 – 29 January 1977) was a cricketer who played in 17 Test matches for South Africa between 1921–22 and 1935–36.[1]


Constantly a deadly force against lesser batsmen on matting during the late 1920s – by which time his bowling on these wickets had been developed into a fine art – in 1930–31 Nupen was, owing to the absence of South Africa's former captain Nummy Deane due to poor form, chosen to captain the team. He did so with considerable skill and accomplished the best bowling of his Test career. He took 5 for 63 and 6 for 87 in the First Test to give South Africa victory by 28 runs,[2] and 3 for 148 and 6 for 46 in the drawn Fourth Test.[3] However, Nupen was thought so badly of on turf pitches that he was left out of the Third and Fifth Tests of that series – the first two ever played on turf in South Africa. Indeed, though he achieved his best-ever domestic figures the following year with 43 wickets for 434 runs (including 9 for 48 and 7 for 88 in the match against Griqualand West).[4]

He was educated at King Edward VII School (Johannesburg) and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for 45 years.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Buster Nupen". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  2. ↑ South Africa v England, Johannesburg, 1930–31 (I)
  3. ↑ South Africa v England, Johannesburg, 1930–31 (II)
  4. ↑ Transvaal v Griqualand West, 1931–32
  5. ↑ Obituary, Cricketer, April 1977, p. 69.

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