Stuart Surridge
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| Full name | Walter Stuart Surridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3 September 1917 Herne Hill, London, England |
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| Died | 13 April 1992 (aged 74) Glossop, Derbyshire |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler, captain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1939 | Minor Counties | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1947–1959 | Surrey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 15 June 2013
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Walter Stuart Surridge (3 September 1917 – 13 April 1992) was a first-class cricketer who played for Surrey. He was born at Herne Hill in south London, educated at Emanuel School, and died at Glossop in Derbyshire. Surridge was one of the most successful cricket captains in County Championship history. Through relentlessly aggressive tactics, he turned an under-performing Surrey team into a record-breaking success in the 1950s. The county won the title in each of the five years he was captain, from 1952 to 1956, and then won two more under Peter May to create a sequence that has not been equalled.
Surridge came from a famous family of cricket bat makers. He was only a moderate cricketer: a lower order batsman whose principal talent was belligerence and a right-arm fast-medium bowler who was, by the standards of his time, somewhat expensive. He was 30 before he played in a first-class match, and usually he was only selected for the first team if other players were injured or on Test duty.
Surrey's team in the early 1950s included several top-class bowlers. Alec Bedser was the main strike bowler for England for ten seasons after the Second World War; Jim Laker was generally rated the best off spin bowler in the country; Tony Lock was an aggressive slow left-arm bowler; and Peter Loader, though eclipsed in Test terms by Brian Statham, Fred Trueman and Frank Tyson, was a fast bowler of menace. Batting resources were thinner, but in Peter May Surrey had one of the most talented batsmen to have emerged since the war. Despite having these players, Surrey lacked success until Surridge was appointed team captain after the 1951 season. They had shared the 1950 Championship with Lancashire but that was their only success since before the First World War.
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