Denis Lindsay
Denis Lindsay batting
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cricket information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National side | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Test debut (cap 215) | 6-11 December 1963 v Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 5-10 March 1970 v Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: Cricinfo, 10 December 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Denis Thomson Lindsay (4 September 1939, Benoni, Gauteng – 30 November 2005, Johannesburg) played 19 Tests for South Africa between 1963 and 1970. His outstanding series was against Australia in 1966-67, when he scored 606 runs in seven innings, including three centuries, took 24 catches as wicketkeeper and conceded only six byes.
Of all wicketkeepers in Test history with a career of 10 Tests or more, he has the lowest number of byes per Test, with 20 byes conceded in the 15 Tests in which he kept wicket; the best keepers with longer careers have averaged around 3 or 4 byes per Test.
He later became an international cricket referee.
During his career, Lindsay was usually erroneously listed as 'J.D. Lindsay', the same as his father, Johnny, who played three Tests for South Africa in 1947.
Denis Lindsay made his first-class debut at the age of 19 for North-Eastern Transvaal in the "B" Section of the Currie Cup in the 1958-59 season. Playing against Orange Free State at Benoni he batted at number five and kept wickets, hitting his team's highest score, 43, in a narrow defeat in a low-scoring match. He immediately became a fixture in his provincial side. He hit his first century, 116, against Orange Free State the next season.
In 1961 he was selected with 12 other promising young players to tour England as the South African Fezela XI under the captaincy of Roy McLean. In the first of the three first-class matches, against Essex, he hit five sixes in successive balls from the leg-spinner Bill Greensmith to win the match.
After solid performances with the bat and behind the stumps for North-Eastern Transvaal, Lindsay was selected to tour Australia and New Zealand in 1963-64. Against South Australia in one of the early matches he scored 104 batting at number nine, adding 108 in 75 minutes with Kelly Seymour, and taking the score from 192 for 7 to 375, when he was last out.
...
Wikipedia