Ted Dexter was a Cambridge blue at two sports, cricket was one what was the other
"PC, Earl Marshal and Chief Butler of England, and it was joked that ""Lord Ted"" could only be controlled by a duke. In fact, the Duke was the President of Sussex County Cricket Club, had been instrumental in Dexter's appointment as county captain, shared his interests in horse racing and golf and was very popular with the Australian public. In the tour match between the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and an Australian XI Dexter hit 102 in 110 minutes, including 2 sixes and 13 fours. John Woodcock of ""The Times"" wrote ""I doubt if it is possible to hit a"
"Ted"" thrashing the fast bowling was one of the most thrilling sights in cricket and he could make any run chase look possible. His great fault was that he seldom gave a bowling attack due respect and got himself out with rash strokes. Though more a batsman than a bowler he could seam and swing the ball, was a useful third paceman even at Test level and was an excellent fielder anywhere. Dexter was a natural one day player, where his big hitting, tidy bowling, keen fielding and lively captaincy gave Sussex their first two trophies – the inaugural Gillette"
"Cross, a medal which had now been stolen. Ted Dexter Edward Ralph ""Ted"" Dexter, (born 15 May 1935) is a former England international cricketer. An aggressive middle-order batsman of ferocious power and a right-arm medium bowler, he captained Sussex and England in the early 1960s. He is known by the nickname Lord Ted. ""Few batsmen, or writers, announce themselves as Dexter did when batting for Sussex against Surrey at the Oval last summer. His first ball, from the pavilion end, was slightly over-pitched on middle and leg. Feet moved fractionally, head hardly at all, but the bat swung the ball"
"whether he batted right- or left-handed, nor what style of bowling he adopted. His cricket career at Cambridge was not impressive: he again batted mainly in the lower order, and though bowling figures for most matches of his era are incomplete, there is no record that he took any wickets in games that were later deemed to be first-class. Despite this lack of achievement, he won a Blue in both 1847 and 1848 by appearing in the University Match against Oxford University. In addition to playing for the university side, he also appeared in games for MCC against the university"
"Ted Dexter Edward Ralph ""Ted"" Dexter, (born 15 May 1935) is a former England international cricketer. An aggressive middle-order batsman of ferocious power and a right-arm medium bowler, he captained Sussex and England in the early 1960s. He is known by the nickname Lord Ted. ""Few batsmen, or writers, announce themselves as Dexter did when batting for Sussex against Surrey at the Oval last summer. His first ball, from the pavilion end, was slightly over-pitched on middle and leg. Feet moved fractionally, head hardly at all, but the bat swung the ball for six over long leg and they fetched"
"match. As a cricketer where he played as a right-handed batsman, often appearing in the lower middle-order, Lancashire played for both Cambridge University and for the county side of Lancashire in 1878 and 1879 without much success. In 1880, he passed 50 for the first time in making an innings of 60 for Cambridge against the ""Gentlemen of England"" side in a high-scoring match. He was then awarded his cricket Blue, and in the 1880 University match he made 5 and 29 as a strong Cambridge team beat Oxford by 115 runs. Lancashire was still at Cambridge in 1881 but"
"centre has been named in his honour. He and his wife Anne have two children. David Jarrett David William Jarrett (born 19 April 1952) is an English schoolmaster who was the first man to win cricket Blues for both Cambridge University and Oxford University. Born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, Jarrett attended Wellington College, in Berkshire, where he played in the First XI, leading the batting in his final year, 1969, with 493 runs at an average of 37.92. He went up to Worcester College, Oxford, and played two seasons as a middle-order batsman in the Oxford cricket team. He achieved only"
"Blue (university sport) A blue is an award earned by athletes at a university and some schools for competition at the highest level. The awarding of blues began at Oxford and Cambridge universities in England. It is awarded at British, and some Canadian, Australian and New Zealand universities. The first sporting contest between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge was held on 4 June 1827, when a two-day cricket match at Lord's, organized by Charles Wordsworth, nephew of the poet William, resulted in a draw. There is no record of any university ""colours"" being worn during the game. At the"
"Test, and their fortunes gripped the cricketing nation, but the inevitable draw meant that Australia retained the Ashes. As some consolation Dexter led Sussex to the finals of the Gillette Cup in 1963 and 1964, and won both, the first trophies in the county's history. ""Above all we had Dexter's captaincy. One-day cricket was his kind of game: it was instant and aggressive and its atmosphere brought out the best in him. He really became involved, more so than in county games. He even made a marked difference to our one day performances when he returned for a season of"
"in Scotgate, Stamford. Dexter was educated at St. John's Infants School, Bluecoat Junior School, from which he gained a scholarship to Stamford School, a boys' public school, where one of his contemporaries was the England international cricket captain and England international rugby player M. J. K. Smith. After leaving school, Dexter completed his national service with the Royal Corps of Signals and then read Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1953 and receiving a master's degree in 1958. In 1954, Dexter began his teaching career in the East Midlands, becoming assistant Classics master at Wyggeston School, Leicester. There he"
"match against Cambridge University in 1963, captaining Col. L. C. Stevens' XI in a match that was scheduled and played as a first-class match but later had its status rescinded by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). After finishing at Cambridge he went to Wadham College, Oxford to study for a PGCE. Late in the 1964 season he took over the wicket-keeping duties for the university team, and played in four matches, including the annual University Match against Cambridge, thus gaining his cricket blue at Oxford. He was a neat keeper who conceded few byes (none at all in the University"
"he won his Blue playing in The Varsity Match at Twickenham for three successive years from 1948 - 1950. David Frost, the former Guardian rugby correspondent, recalled a famous tackle in the 1949 Varsity match when John Kendall-Carpenter preserved Oxford's 3-0 winning lead by thwarting J.V. Smith, the Cambridge centre, in the dying moments of the game: """"Smith slipped his man, side-stepped two coverers and seemed certain to cross at the corner and bring at least an equalising try (three points in those days),"" reported the Guardian. ""Cambridge hats were already in the air and Oxford's supporters were dumb with"
"a Cambridge Blue in billiards and golf. After graduating, he worked with his father at the ""News of the World"". He later made his only appearance for Glamorgan in 1934 against Cambridge University. In this match, he scored 6 runs before being stumped by Billy Griffith off the bowling of John Human. He joined the Royal Air Force in World War II, where he held the rank of Flight Lieutenant. He worked within the intelligence branch of the RAF for two and a half years, before he was incapacitated by poor health. He died in Marylebone, London on 18 August"
"in 1958–59 and against England in 1960. He would not tolerate the indiscipline of Roy Gilchrist on the tour of India and sent him home before the team reached Pakistan. He was educated at Wolmer’s Boys' School, which was founded in 1729 and is one of the oldest schools in the West Indies. He then attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He played for the Cambridge cricket team in both 1952 and 1953, winning a Blue in both years for appearing in the University Match against Oxford. He also won a Blue at football, and went on to win an"
"Cambridge in 1889. He made his first-class debut for Kent County Cricket Club as an opening batsman against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1891; scoring a half-century in the second innings, before achieving his Cambridge blue later in the season. An all-round sportsman, he also represented Cambridge in rackets, and popularised squash — a sport he played into his seventies. A defensive batsman with a strong cut shot, he often batted down the order after leaving Cambridge and often added useful runs, including his highest first-class score of 138 not out which helped Kent to victory over the Gentlemen of"
"it back from the seats under the gasholder."" Dexter was educated at Norfolk House, Beaconsfield and Radley College, where he played in the first XI from 1950 to 1953, initially as a wicket-keeper and as captain in 1953, and was nicknamed ""Lord Ted"" for his aloof self-confidence. While Dexter was head boy at Radley, Peter Cook, English satirist, writer and actor, was among those younger boys upon whom 'a big & strong' Dexter inflicted corporal punishment. He did his national service as a second lieutenant in the 11th Hussars during the Malayan Emergency in 1953–55 and was awarded the Malaya"
"was at Oxford University and in addition to appearing in first-class matches for the university side, he also played in one List A match for the Combined Universities cricket team. He won a blue by appearing in the annual University Match against Cambridge University. After the university cricket season was over, he appeared in a handful of List A and first-class matches for Somerset. In 1995, he appeared irregularly in Somerset's first team in both County Championship and one-day matches, but in 1996, he became a regular in List A games and made two centuries in them. In a Benson"
"was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler who made the ball swerve. He took five Lancashire wickets for just 30 runs on his debut for Oxford University in 1907. In the next game, he did even better, with six Worcestershire wickets for 43 runs in the first innings, and nine in the match. He was unable to sustain this success, but did enough to be awarded his Blue by appearing in the University Match against Cambridge University where, bowling in tandem with Humphrey Gilbert, he took seven wickets in all and gave Oxford a first-innings lead, but"
"and Brian Statham. Ted Dexter of Sussex was put in charge and while he beat Pakistan 1–0 he lost to India 2–0, their first series victory over England. Dexter made 712 runs (71.20) on the tour and another 446 (89.20) when Pakistan toured England in 1962 and were thrashed 4–0. Dexter captained England in the First and Second Tests to big victories, but then Colin Cowdrey was put in charge to the Third Test. Cowdrey had been May's affable vice-captain, had a shrewd cricket brain and was seen as his natural successor, but had inherited his cautious tactics and the"
"right- or left-handed. At Cambridge University he went straight into the university's first team in the 1854 trial match, but he failed to make runs in that or subsequent matches across the next two seasons and could not secure his place. In 1856, he played only a single first-class game for a ""Gentlemen of England"" amateur side. He did not win a Blue for appearing in the University Match against Oxford University until his fourth year at the university, which was his most successful in cricket; in the 1857 game, he scored 23 and 35 not out, which was his"
"season. He won a Blue in 1946 but only played one first-class match for Cambridge after the season, appearing in 1948 against Free Foresters. He also made one appearance for Kent against Sussex in August 1946, having previously played in two Minor Counties Championship matches for Kent's Second XI in 1938 and 1939. He now resides in rural Suffolk. David Lacy-Scott David Geffrey Lacy-Scott (born 18 August 1920) is a former English amateur cricketer. Born in Calcutta, Lacy-Scott was educated at Marlborough College and Peterhouse, Cambridge University. He served in the British Indian Army during the Second World War, receiving"
"to the wicket with the score at 54 for 6 and the fall of the last wicket at 142. He toured Canada with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1951, playing in the first-class match against the Canadian national side, and played his final first-class match against Ireland in Dublin in 1954. Campbell was a good all-round sportsman and won a Blue in hockey at Oxford. He went on to win an England cap in the sport. He played rugby union for Kent and London Counties. Campbell became a schoolteacher. He taught at King's School, Worcester, Rugby and Cranleigh in England,"
"match against the MCC, and this remained his highest score. He played in the University Match against Oxford University in each of his three seasons at Cambridge, but only in his last year did he make much impact, though his 54 in Cambridge's second innings was insufficient to prevent a defeat. Cricket was not his only sport at Cambridge: he won a Blue as cox of the Cambridge rowing eight at Henley in 1855 and was then cox of the successful Cambridge boat in the Boat Race 1856. Wingfield graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in"
"runs at an average of 9.07, with a high score of 31 not out. With the ball, he took 10 wickets at a bowling average of 45.60, with best figures of 2/21. He gained a cricketing Blue while at Cambridge. He also made a single first-class appearance in 1970 for Warwickshire against Cambridge University at Edgbaston, making scores of 31 and 32 in a drawn match. This was his only major appearance for Warwickshire. His brother, John, played Test cricket for England. Thomas Jameson (cricketer, born 1946) Thomas Edward Neville Jameson (born 23 July 1946) is a former English cricketer."
"Dexter was the man who shaped modern cricket'. In first-class matches he bored easily and his strokes of genius were in the end outweighed by his mistakes. As England captain he only beat the weak Pakistan and New Zealand teams, lost to the West Indies cricket team and failed twice to regain the Ashes. He was removed from the captaincy after losing 1–0 to Bobby Simpson's Australia in 1964 and toured South Africa only after contesting Jim Callaghan's seat in the 1964 General Election. He broke his leg pushing his Jag to the side of the road in 1965 and"
"to Germany for two weeks. Webb went to New College, Oxford on a scholarship and then trained in medicine at St Thomas's Hospital in London. At Oxford University, Webb won Blues in four sports: golf, cricket, squash and rackets. As a cricketer, he was a right-handed batsman who bowled occasional leg breaks. Webb made his first-class debut for Oxford University against Lancashire in the 1946 season, but had little success that season and was dropped after three games; he did not play any first-class cricket in 1947. He returned to the Oxford team in 1948 making 36 and 59 in"
"and are widely covered in the national media. All other significant sports have their own varsity match at some point during the year; some of these, such as the cricket fixture, the Ice Hockey Varsity Match and the Varsity Polo Match have attracted significant attention in the past. The results of all the varsity matches in The Varsity Games are aggregated and each year one university wins the Varsity Games title. Sportsmen who have competed at a Varsity Match in the prestigious Full Blue sports are eligible for an Oxford Blue or Cambridge Blue respectively. Over the last few years,"
"Oxford University Cricket Club and Cambridge University Cricket Club. In 1866, when he played a match at Oxford, one of the Oxford players, Edmund Carter, tried to interest him in becoming an undergraduate. Then, in 1868, Grace received overtures from Caius College, Cambridge, which had a long medical tradition. Grace said he would have gone to either Oxford or Cambridge if his father had allowed it. Instead, he enrolled at Bristol Medical School in October 1868, aged 20, and was a medical student until he finally qualified in November 1879. Cricket in the 1860s underwent an evolutionary phase with the"
"being different from that of his brothers. He studied in Wesley High School, Wesley College and the Presidency. On one occasion while at Wesley, he put on more than 200 runs for the last wicket to win a match after his team was 50 for nine, himself scoring 188*. He joined Cambridge University in 1919 where he studied until 1923. In the summer of 1920, he won singles the Doherty Cup tennis tournament open to all students in the university. He won a 'half blue' that year, representing Cambridge in the doubles, and earned a blue in 1921. On a"
"February 1962, Ted Dexter's team returning from their tour of India and Pakistan played Ceylon at the Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo in a three-day match. MCC won by 8 wickets. However, the MCC England teams in 1962–63 and 1965–66 played only minor matches when stopping over on their voyages to Australia. The 1965–66 team to Australia was the last to travel there by sea and so the Colombo stopovers ended. In January 1969, the MCC England team visiting Pakistan came to Colombo and played Ceylon in a drawn match. By this time, the standard of cricket in the island"
"Cambridge blue for that sport as well, and he made 17 first-class cricket appearances for the university cricket team in 1984 and 1985, as well as playing five times for Combined Universities in one-day cricket. A left-handed batsman and right arm off-break bowler, he made one first-class century, scoring 101 not out against Nottinghamshire in July 1984. Andrew also made a few appearances for the Yorkshire Second XI, and on one occasion dismissed future England captain Mike Atherton (then aged 17) for a duck. In November 2016 Andrew was appointed chief executive of Sussex County Cricket Club. Andrew is an"
"went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1878, where he won his Blue as a freshman and played in the University match, against Oxford University, four times. He made 38 and 40 against Oxford in 1880, and he and two of his brothers, Kynaston Studd and Charles Studd, were all in the Cambridge team in 1881 and 1882. George was captain of Cambridge in 1882, when he scored 120, which at the time was only the seventh three-figure score and the second highest in University matches. While primarily a cricketer, George also played against Oxford University in singles and doubles"
"also bowled fast-medium, though it was reported that his run-up tended to be rather more fearsome than the bowling that resulted from it. He gained blues in football and cricket in his first year. At a time when, he said, it was ""desirable but by no means essential"" for an Oxbridge student to finish with a degree, he approached his studies light-heartedly and did not sit for his exams in his final year, preferring to concentrate on his captaincy of the Oxford cricket team. He scored a century in the match against Cambridge, but Oxford lost. In the match against"