Reg Bettington
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| Full name | Reginald Henshall Brindley Bettington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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24 February 1900 Merriwa, New South Wales |
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| Died | 24 June 1969 (aged 69) Gisborne, New Zealand |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm leg-spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1920 to 1923 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1928 | Middlesex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1928–29 to 1931–32 | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricket Archive, 25 February 2014
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Reginald Henshall Brindley Bettington (born 24 February 1900, Merriwa, New South Wales, died 24 June 1969, Gisborne, New Zealand) was an Australian first-class cricketer and medical specialist.
Reg Bettington was brought up on the family sheep station near Merriwa and attended The King's School, Parramatta from the age of 11, where he excelled at Latin and Greek and played for several years in the First XI cricket team. He went up to New College, Oxford University in 1919, and played cricket regularly for Oxford University for the next four seasons.
At 19, he was six-foot three and an imposing figure. "A very tall, very dark young man strode through the New College gates. We watched in awe," E.W. Swanton later wrote. A leg-spinner and useful lower-order batsman, in his first match Bettington took 5 for 48 in Warwickshire's second innings. Alongside him for the Oxford team, also making their first-class debuts, were Douglas Jardine and R. C. Robertson-Glasgow. In his second match he took 5 for 52 in the second innings against Middlesex. In his third match he took 5 for 48 in Essex's second innings, including a hat-trick. In his fourth match he took seven wickets against Free Foresters, in his fifth, 7 for 47 and 5 for 52 against Somerset, and in his sixth, 8 for 67 and 5 for 61 against Surrey. At this stage Oxford had won five consecutive matches. In the next match, a loss to MCC, he took only three wickets, but it brought his first-class wicket tally to 50 in only his seventh match. He was selected for Gentlemen in both their matches. As well as his cricket Blue in 1920 he also won his Rugby Blue and golf Blue.
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