Full name David John Mordaunt Name David Mordaunt 1964–1974 Berkshire | Batting style Right-handed | |
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Born 24 August 1937 (age 86) ( 1937-08-24 ) Chelsea, London, England Relations Gerald Mordaunt (grandfather)
John Mordaunt (great-grandfather) 1964 Marylebone Cricket Club | ||
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast | ||
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David John Mordaunt (born 24 August 1937) is a former English cricketer, teacher and expeditioner.
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Cricket career
Mordaunt was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He made his first-class debut in 1958 for Sussex in the game against Oxford University, scoring 96 in the second innings, when he was caughttrying to hit his fourth six, which would have given him a century on debut. From 1958 to 1960, Mordaunt played 19 first-class matches for Sussex as an amateur, his final match for the county coming against Gloucestershire in the 1960 County Championship. He scored 586 runs for Sussex at a batting average of 24.41, with five half-centuries and highest score of 96. With the ball he took 19 wickets at a bowling average of 28.89, with a single five wicket haul of 5 for 42.
Mordaunt left Sussex at the end of the 1960 season. He played his final first-class match in 1964 for Marylebone Cricket Club against Ireland. With the MCC he also toured North America in 1959, South America in 1964-65, and North America again in 1967.
In 1964 he joined the minor county Berkshire. Mordaunt's Minor Counties Championship debut for Berkshire came against Devon. From 1964 to 1974, he played 40 Minor Counties Championship matches for Berkshire.
Mordaunt made his List-A debut for Berkshire against Somerset in the 1st round of the 1965 Gillette Cup. Mordaunt played 3 further one-day matches for the county, against Hertfordshire in the 1st round of the 1966 Gillette Cup, against Gloucestershire in the 2nd round of the same tournament. During the match against Gloucestershire and finally against Hertfordshire in the 1976 Gillette Cup. In his 4 one-day matches for Berkshire, he scored 144 runs at an average of 36.00, with 2 half centuries and a high score 60. With the ball he took 3 wickets at an average of 44.00, with best figures of 3/24.
Main career
Mordaunt was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and was a prominent schoolboy cricketer. Between 1955 and 1957 he served in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. He became a schoolteacher in Oxford in 1958. He returned to Wellington College in 1963 to teach mathematics.
He was also a noted expeditioner, leading three Royal Geographical Schools Expeditions to the Arctic and, in 1983, a Royal Geographical Society expedition through Nepal to the base of Annapurna.
Family
He married Dr Catharine Hilary Mayne in 1990. Mordaunt's grandfather, Gerald Mordaunt, and his great-grandfather, John Mordaunt, both played first-class cricket.