Ray Dovey
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| Full name | Raymond Randall Dovey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 July 1920 Tunbridge Wells , Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1938–1954 | Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1955–1959 | Dorset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 9 July 1938 Kent v Surrey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 25 August 1954 Kent v Pakistanis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 7 March 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Raymond Randall Dovey (18 July 1920 – 27 December 1974), known as Ray Dovey, was an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club from 1938 to 1954.
Dovey was born in
county cap in 1946 and was used as a "stock bowler"[5] by Kent. He has been described as a "more than useful off-spinner"[6] who was "reliable".[2]
As well as spinning the ball he could also bowl effective medium-pace deliveries and turned the ball sharply, especially on damp pitches. Dovey took career best bowling figures of eight wickets for 23 runs on such a pitch in 1950 against Surrey,[2] taking 102 wickets for Kent during the season.[6]
Dovey toured India and
Ceylon with a Commonwealth cricket team in 1950–51, playing in 10 first-class matches on the tour, and took a total of 777 first-class wickets in his career.[5] He played non-first-class matches for Glamorgan sides during the war and made his final first class appearance for Kent against the touring Pakistanis in August 1954.[4]
After retiring from first-class cricket Dovey coached cricket at
Tunbridge Wells in Kent in December 1974 aged 54.[2]
References
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-07-01.)
- ^ a b c d e f Dovey, Raymond Randall, Obituaries before 1975, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1976. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
- CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
- ^ a b c Ray Dovey, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
- ^ a b c Obituary, The Times, 1975-01-07, p.14.
- ^ a b The History of Kent County Cricket Club – Part Six: The Post-War Years, Kent Cricket Heritage Trust. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
- ^ Cricket history at Tonbridge School, Tonbridge School. Retrieved 2018-03-07.