Tom Cartwright
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Full name | Thomas William Cartwright | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Alderman's Green, Coventry, England | 22 July 1935||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 30 April 2007 Neath, Glamorgan, Wales | (aged 71)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Nail | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-hand medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 424) | 23 July 1964 v Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 5 August 1965 v South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1952–1969 | Warwickshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1970–1976 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1977 | Glamorgan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 25 January 2009 |
Thomas William Cartwright
Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, stated, "Cartwright was an exceptional bowler whose talents could not find a niche in the England side, much to the discredit of the selectors. His high, flowing action off a few steady paces produced unerring accuracy and nip for his rich assortment of seam and swing deliveries, but England looked usually for a first change bowler with extra pace".
Life and career
Cartwright was born in
He joined
He made his first-class debut in Warwickshire's last
He scored seven first-class centuries, including 210 against Middlesex in 1962. He took 100 wickets in eight seasons, and passed 1,000 runs in three seasons. He achieving the all-rounder's "double" in 1962, taking 106 wickets and making 1176 runs. In 1965, he took 100 wickets at an average of 13.85. He won the Gillette Cup with Warwickshire in 1966 and 1968.
He made his Test debut in the Fourth Test against
He was selected for the 1968/9 tour to South Africa, but a shoulder injury caused him to withdraw at the last minute. Basil D'Oliveira was selected to take his place, and the resulting controversy led to South Africa's exclusion from Test cricket for twenty two years.
Cartwright took 8–96 in his final match for Warwickshire in 1969. Worried about his future career, he sought a coaching position at Warwickshire before moving to Somerset to take up a coaching job at
After he retired from professional cricket, he was cricket manager at Glamorgan from 1977 to 1983. He became coach for the Welsh Cricket Association and then the first Welsh national coach. For this work, he was awarded the MBE when he retired in 2000. He also became the first cricket coach to join the National Coaching Federation's Hall of Fame. He took charge of the development of under-16 cricketers for many years, continuing until 2007.
Aged 70, he played his last game of cricket at Broadhalfpenny Down in September 2005.[citation needed]
Cartwright suffered a heart attack in March 2007, and died a month later. He was survived by his Welsh wife, Joan Rees, whom he married in 1960, and by their son and daughter. Joan died on 28 March 2017.[citation needed]
A biography, Tom Cartwright: The Flame Still Burns, by Stephen Chalke was published in April 2007.
References
- Footnotes
- References
- Tom Cartwright at ESPNcricinfo
- Tom Cartwright at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- Veteran of apartheid era says do not go, The Guardian, 9 January 2003
- Tom Cartwright from Warwickshire County Cricket Club
- England seamer Tom Cartwright dies, Cricinfo, 30 April 2007
- "Obituary". The Times. 1 May 2007. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2007.
- Obituary, The Independent, 1 May 2007
- Obituary, The Guardian, 1 May 2007
- Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 1 May 2007