Role Cricket Player Died February 10, 1980 | National side English Education Repton School Name Arthur Burlton | |
Batting style Right-handed batsman Bowling style Right arm off-break | ||
Arthur Temple Burlton (10 March 1900 – 10 February 1980) was an Indian-born English cricketer who played five first-class matches for Worcestershire in 1922. He attended Repton School, but did not get into the cricket team there.
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Career
He scored 20 and 17 on debut against Sussex, but his best match was his second, against Glamorgan at Cardiff Arms Park. He scored 32 and 35 not out, in the first innings putting on 91 with Harry Higgins to bring Worcestershire from 43/4 up to a position where they were able to record a 44-run victory. In the six remaining innings of his first-class career, however, he made only ten runs, being dismissed for 0, 5, 1, 0, 4 and 0.
Burlton's only wicket (that of Peter Perrin) came in an otherwise disastrous match against Essex at Leyton. Worcestershire were bowled out for 49, then saw Essex pile up 521 in reply. Essex won the game by the little matter of an innings and 297 runs; Worcestershire have not been defeated by a larger margin since that date.
Burlton also played at minor counties level for Devon.
Off the pitch
In 1955 wrote a book, Cricketing Courtesy. Outside cricket he reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
Burlton was born in Coimbatore, Madras; he died a month short of his 80th birthday at Ballochneck, Thornhill, Stirling, Scotland.