deliveries columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor country club fivefor batting name birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls & ndash ; & ndash ; 2 1 & ndash ; / & ndash ; & ndash ; / 1959 & ndash ; 1969 1957 2010 25 july 1936 & ndash ; & ndash ; england dorset hampshire & ndash ; & ndash ; right-handed colin roper litton cheney , dorset , england first-class list a wicket-keeper http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/19472.html cricinfo 1936 7 25 yes 7 0 & ndash ; & ndash ; & ; / & ndash ; ndash ; / & ndash ; & ndash 1 1 colin roper

colin roper

colin roper -lrb- born 25 july 1936 -rrb- is a former english cricketer .
roper was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper .
he was born at litton cheney , dorset .
roper made a single first-class appearance for hampshire against oxford university at the university parks in 1957 .
oxford university won the toss and elected to bat first , making 317 for 8 declared in their first-innings , during which roper took a single catch behind the stumps , to dismiss richard jowett off the bowling of malcolm heath .
in response , hampshire made 229 all out in their first-innings , during which roper scored 7 runs , before he was dismissed by jack bailey .
oxford university declared in their second-innings on 151 for 4 , with hampshire then reaching 137 for 5 in their second-innings , at which point the match was declared a draw .
this was his only major appearance for hampshire .
he later played for dorset , making his debut for the county in the 1959 minor counties championship against berkshire .
he made 79 further appearances for the county in the minor counties championship , the last of which came against the somerset second xi in 1969 .
he also made a single list a appearance for dorset in the 1968 gillette cup against bedfordshire at sherborne school .
batting at number three in the batting order , roper was dismissed for a duck by bill bushby , with bedfordshire winning the match by 8 wickets to progress to the next round .
