Sydney Rippon
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| Full name | Arthur Ernest Sydney Rippon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
29 April 1892 Kensington, London, England |
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| Died | 13 April 1966 (aged 73) Berrylands, Surbiton, Surrey, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm slow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Opening batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Twin brother, Dudley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1914–37 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 21 May 1914 Somerset v Surrey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 9 July 1937 Somerset v Nottinghamshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 12 October 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur Ernest Sydney Rippon (29 April 1892 – 13 April 1966) was an English cricketer who played 102 first-class cricket matches for Somerset as a batsman between 1914 and 1937. In many of his early first-class matches in 1914 and 1919, he opened the batting with his identical twin brother, Dudley Rippon.
The Rippon family hailed from London but had relocated to in Somerset, and the twins were sent to school at King's College, Taunton, where they made a lot of runs and caused confusion by their close resemblance to each other. Sydney joined the Knowle Cricket Club in Bristol and scored heavily in club cricket; Dudley got a job on a Bath newspaper and played for a local team.
Like his brother, Sydney Rippon was a right-handed opening batsman; unlike Dudley, he was not a regular bowler in first-class cricket, and he took only three first-class wickets in his career. He made his debut a few days after his brother, and played only six matches in the 1914 season, with a top score of 60 in the final one of those, against Gloucestershire at Taunton.
Rippon also played in the return match at Bristol: that match began on 3 August 1914, and the following day the United Kingdom declared war on Germany as the First World War broke out across Europe. Rippon was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers, initially in its third (reserve) battalion. In 1916, he was transferred to one of the new service battalions being formed as part of "Kitchener's Army". He entered the Western Front in France on 14 May 1916. He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 July 1917. He was later wounded, and as a result, resigned his commission on 24 January 1918, he was issued with the Silver War Badge to show that he had been honourably discharged. After this he joined the Inland Revenue, and was appointed an Inspector of Taxes on 11 November 1921.
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