John Bluett (cricketer)
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| Full name | John Douglas Jeremy Bluett | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 May 1930 off break | ||||||||||||||
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| 1950 | Kent | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 7 August 2020 | |||||||||||||||
John Douglas Jeremy Bluett (29 May 1930 – 23 August 2019) was an English amateur cricketer who played two first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club in 1950.
Bluett was born at
Good batting performances featuring centuries against Sussex Second XI and Devon in 1950 saw him called into the First XI and he made his senior debut against Worcestershire in the 1950 County Championship at Tunbridge Wells. He played again in Kent's following match against Leicestershire at Loughborough, but scored only ten runs in the two innings in which he batted and played no more first-class cricket.[1][3]
In local cricket, Bluett played for
Bluett worked on the London Stock Exchange and was the director of a timber broking company. He served on the Kent General Committee between 1977 and 1979, and ran the junior section of Band of Brothers for a time.[1] Two of his sons played cricket for Bromley.[3] He died in August 2019 at the Princess Royal University Hospital in Orpington aged 89.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Deaths in 2019, Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2020, p.223. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.
- ^ a b Public school cricket in 1948, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1948, p.678. (Available online. Retrieved 7 August 2020.)
- ^ a b c d John Bluett, CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 August 2020. (subscription required)
- ^ Club Cricket Conference Numbered Caps List, Club Cricket Conference. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
- CricInfo. Retrieved 7 August 2020.