Anthony Catt

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Anthony Catt
Personal information
Full name
Anthony Waldron Catt
Born(1933-10-02)2 October 1933
Dormansland, Surrey[a]
Died6 August 2018(2018-08-06) (aged 84)
Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
BattingRight-handed
RoleWicket-keeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1954–1964Kent
1965/66–1967/68Western Province
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 138 2
Runs scored 3,123 20
Batting average 17.25 10.00
100s/50s 1/9 0/0
Top score 162 18
Balls bowled 18 0
Wickets 0
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 284/37 0/0
Source: CricInfo, 15 April 2017

Anthony Waldron Catt (2 October 1933 – 6 August 2018) was an English cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper for Kent County Cricket Club. He made his first-class cricket debut in 1954 against Oxford University.[1][2] He died in August 2018 aged 84.[3]

Early life

Catt was born at

Dormansland in Surrey where his father was a chauffeur.[a] He was educated at Tower Ramparts Secondary Modern School in Ipswich.[4]

Cricket career

Catt had played for the

Western Province in South Africa.[4]

In August 1955, when Northamptonshire made 374 in their first innings against Kent the total included 73 extras and Catt conceded 48 byes and 23 leg byes.[6] In mitigation he was said to be suffering from the effects of "what was officially stated to be sunburn".[4][5][9][10][11] The total of byes and leg byes conceded remains a County Championship records as of 2019.[6][12]

Catt's highest score in first-class cricket came when he was used as a nightwatchman against Leicestershire in 1962. Having survived until stumps, the following day he scored 121 in the morning session, finishing with a score of 162, his only first-class century despite being considered a "class" batsman and having made a score of 201 for the Second XI in 1959.[4][5][13]

In total, Catt made 138 first-class appearances, including 118 in the

Gillette Cup as one-day cricket became established in the early 1960s.[1][2] He scored 3,123 first-class runs and claimed 321 victims behind the stumps.[6]

Death

Catt died at Rondebosch a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa in August 2018. He was aged 84.[4][5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Most sources list Catt as having been born at Edenbridge, Kent. His obituary in the Kent County Cricket Club Annual, 2019, reveals that his birth certificate shows Dormansland as his place of birth – although his Wisden obituary gives it as Ipswich.[4][5]

References

  1. ^
    CricInfo
    . Retrieved 2107-04-16.
  2. ^ a b c Tony Catt, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  3. ^ Former Kent wicketkeeper Anthony Catt dies, Kent County Cricket Club, 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Carlaw D (2019) Anthony Waldron Catt, Deaths in 2018, Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2019, p. 189. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.
  5. ^ a b c d Booth L (2019) Catt, Anthony Waldron, Obituaries in 2018, The Shorter Wisden 2019: The Best Writing from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2019. London: Bloomsbury. (Available online. Retrieved 2019-08-15.)
  6. ^ a b c d e f Shenton K (2018) Tony Catt, Obits, in Beyond the Boundaries, vol.23, p. 73.
  7. ^ a b Mallett A (2010) Eleven: The Greatest Eleven of the 20th Century, p. 94. University of Queensland Press. (Available online. Retrieved 2017-04-15.)
  8. ^ Alan Knott, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1970, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1970. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  9. ^ Wisden 1956, p. 503.
  10. ^ On the Boundary: Statistician David comes up with an extra special fact[permanent dead link], Derby Telegraph, 2009-05-20. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  11. CricInfo
    , 2006-09-12. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  12. CricInfo
    , 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  13. CricInfo
    . Retrieved 2017-04-16.

External links

Anthony Catt at ESPNcricinfo