deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls -- 13 september 1962 1 2/2 1932/33 1931/32 1911 2011 5 september 1887 -- england monks risborough , buckinghamshire , england hyderabad nizam 's state railway a devon -- right-handed ernest wyndham burdett roorkee , united provinces , british raj first-class wicket-keeper http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/27083.html cricinfo 1887 9 5 yes 49 -- -- / -- 2 ernest burdett

ernest burdett

ernest wyndham burdett mc , dso -lrb- 5 september 1887 -- 13 september 1962 -rrb- was an english cricketer and indian army officer born in roorkee , then in the british raj .
burdett was a wicket-keeper .
burdett was the son of reverend william jerome burdett and eliza katharine toye .
he was educated at king 's school , bruton .
burdett was listed in the london gazette , dated 11 february 1910 , as serving in the indian army and as being promoted from 2nd lieutenant to lieutenant .
he served in the 48th pioneers .
the following year it can be assumed that burdett returned to england prior to july 1911 , as he played five minor counties championship matches for devon in that year .
burdett served in the indian army during the first world war and was listed in the 6 april 1917 edition of the london gazette , still serving in the 48th pioneers and having been promoted to the rank of captain .
he eventually reached the rank of lieutenant colonel .
during the course of the war he was decorated with the military cross and the distinguished service order .
fourteen years later he made his first-class debut for railways a against freelooters .
he was dismissed for a duck in the railways first-innings by ladha ramji .
in their second-innings he scored 12 runs , before being dismissed by amar singh .
burdett made a single stumping in the match , stumping ahmed baporia from the bowling of p. ramsey-brown .
the following year he played his second and final first-class match , this time for hyderabad against karachi .
in the hyderabad first-innings , burdett scored 37 runs before being dismissed by d.o. daulatram .
in the karachi first-innings he stumped opening batsman abdul aziz and caught behind abbas khan and hyder ali .
burdett scored 49 runs in his two first-class matches , ending with a batting average of 12.25 .
burdett married hebe etheldreda ellen curwen collis on 17 november 1919 .
they had two children : elizabeth sylvia burdett -lrb- 1921 -- 1984 -rrb- and arlingham jerome d'arcy burdett -lrb- 1922 -- 1995 -rrb- .
burdett spent his later life in england , where on 13 september 1962 he died in monks risborough , buckinghamshire .
