deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
348 8 september 1934 1 37/0 1925-1927 1928-1934 2009 28 october 1906 0 england writtle , essex , england essex 0 right-hand bat dudley pope dudley fairbridge pope barnes , england fc batsman http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/18686.html cricinfo 1906 10 28 yes 6557 4 7/31 159 dudley pope -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

dudley pope -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

dudley fairbridge pope -lrb- 28 october 1906 - 8 september 1934 -rrb- was an english cricketer .
a right-handed batsman , pope was born in barnes and is recorded in the 1911 census as living in richmond , surrey at age four .
he played 159 first class matches for essex and gloucestershire between 1925 and his death in a car accident in 1934 .
he scored 6,557 runs at 26.33 , including seven centuries , and formed a `` solid professional nucleus '' along with such players as jim cutmore , laurie eastman , jack o'connor , jack russell and stan nichols .
in 1933 pope , along with many of these players , scored over 1,000 runs , the first time six batsmen had topped 1,000 in a season .
