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Mike Denness

Mike Denness OBE
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Personal information
Full name Michael Henry Denness
Born (1940-12-01)1 December 1940
Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died 19 April 2013(2013-04-19) (aged 72)
London, England
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm off break
Right arm medium
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 444) 21 August 1969 v New Zealand
Last Test 14 July 1975 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 21) 5 September 1973 v West Indies
Last ODI 18 June 1975 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years Team
1959–1967 Scotland
1962–1976 Kent
1977–1980 Essex
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODI FC LA
Matches 28 12 501 232
Runs scored 1,667 264 25,886 5,393
Batting average 39.69 29.33 33.48 27.23
100s/50s 4/7 -/1 33/152 6/28
Top score 188 66 195 118*
Balls bowled 84
Wickets 2
Bowling average 31.00
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match n/a n/a
Best bowling 1/7
Catches/stumpings 28/– 1/– 410/– 94/–
Source: Cricinfo, 22 March 2009

Michael Henry Denness OBE (1 December 1940 – 19 April 2013) was a Scottish cricketer who played for England, Scotland, Kent and Essex.

Scotland did not have a representative international team at the time of Denness' career, so he could only play for England at Test and ODI level. He was the fifth player born in Scotland to play for England, after Gregor MacGregor, Ian Peebles, David Larter and Eric Russell, but remains the only England captain to be born in Scotland (Douglas Jardine and Tony Greig had Scottish parents, but Jardine was born in Mumbai and Greig in South Africa).

Denness later became an ICC match referee. He was one of the inaugural inductees into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1975. He was president of Kent County Cricket Club in 2012–13.

Denness was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father was employed by W.D. & H.O. Wills, a tobacco importer and cigarette manufacturer and part of Imperial Tobacco.


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