Rodney Cass
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| Full name | George Rodney Cass | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
23 April 1940 Overton, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England |
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| Batting style | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1964–1967 | Essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1969–1975 | Worcestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1970/71–1972/73 | Tasmania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 14 October 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Rodney Cass (born 23 April 1940) is a former English cricketer: a wicket-keeper who played first-class cricket for Essex and Worcestershire in England, and for Tasmania in Australia, in the 1960s and 1970s. He was capped by Worcestershire in 1970.
Cass played for Yorkshire's Second XI in 1962, before moving to Essex in 1963. He made his first-class debut against Glamorgan at Clacton-on-Sea in late July 1964, when he scored 7 and took one catch (to dismiss opposing keeper Eifion Jones). That was his only such appearance of the season; the following year he played four matches, but scored only 49 runs and made just three dismissals in total.
1966 saw Cass play a full part in an Essex season for the first time: he hit 772 first-class runs at a shade over 20 and claimed 14 catches and two stumpings; with Brian Taylor as the regular wicket-keeper and captain of the Essex side at this time, his opportunities to keep wicket were limited and he played for Essex largely as a specialist batsman. He scored two half-centuries in 1966, of which the higher was the 65 he struck against Cambridge University in June. His achievement in this game was somewhat overshadowed by that of Keith Boyce, playing only his second first-class match, who took career-best figures of 9–61 in the first innings. Cass also made his List A debut in 1966, when he played for Essex against Worcestershire in the Gillette Cup. In 1967 Cass scored his maiden first-class century, 104 not out against Warwickshire in early July. However, he did not play at all in the second half of that season, nor (a few Second XI games in August excepted) throughout 1968.
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