Hugh Bartlett
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| Full name | Hugh Tryon Bartlett | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
7 October 1914 Balaghat, India |
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| Died | 28 June 1988 (aged 73) Hove, Sussex, England |
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| Batting style | Left-hand bat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1933-1935 | Surrey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1934-1936 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1936-1946 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricket Archive, 27 February 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hugh Tryon Bartlett DFC (born 7 October 1914 in Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, India and died 26 June 1988 in Hove, England) was an attacking left-handed batsman who played for Sussex on either side of the war.
Bartlett was born in Balaghat, India and moved to England at the age of nine. He captained Dulwich College for three seasons. In 1933 - his last season for the school - he hit two double hundreds in successive weeks and set a Dulwich record of 228 against Mill Hill ( the record stood until 2006, when Arthur Mitchell hit 230* at a lower age group ). He won blues at Cambridge for three years and in 1936 captained them in the Varsity match. After a few matches with Surrey, he settled down as an amateur at Sussex.
Bartlett's finest year was 1938. While travelling by train to Leeds to play Yorkshire in May, his captain Jack Holmes told him : 'If you score 50 I will give you your cap ... a 50 against Yorkshire is worth 150 against any other county'. Sussex lost their first five wickets for 106 when Bartlett joined Harry Parks. They added 126 in 75 minutes of which Bartlett scored 94. The bowlers were Bill Bowes, Hedley Verity, Frank Smailes, Emmott Robinson and Cyril Turner. He hit seven sixes and nine fours - all the seven sixes and one four came off Verity. In two overs of Verity, Bartlett scored .6266. and ..66.6 The last six was his final scoring shot as he tried hit Smailes over long off and was caught by Maurice Leyland 'with his heels on the boundary and left hand outstretched'. Bartlett was duly awarded his county cap.
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