Lance Duldig
Duldig on a 1951 card
Personal information
Full name
Lance Desmond Duldig
Born(1922-02-21)21 February 1922
Eudunda, South Australia
Died14 September 1998(1998-09-14) (aged 76)
Beaumont, South Australia
BattingRight-handed
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1940–41 to 1952–53South Australia
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 40
Runs scored 2107
Batting average 31.44
100s/50s 1/12
Top score 121 not out
Balls bowled 8
Wickets 0
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings 16/0
Source: Cricinfo, 22 June 2016

Lance Desmond Duldig (21 February 1922 – 14 September 1998) was a first-class cricketer who played for South Australia from 1941 to 1953. He toured New Zealand with the Australian team in 1949–50.

Cricket career

A right-handed middle-order batsman, Lance Duldig captained the South Australian schoolboys team in 1937.[1] He made his first-class debut for South Australia on his nineteenth birthday in 1941.[2] He enlisted later that year and served with the 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion in New Guinea.[3] His recovery after the war was hampered by malaria,[2] and his second first-class match did not come until 1948–49, when he began five seasons as a regular member of the South Australian team.

He scored consistently, making nearly 2000 runs in the five seasons, but with only one century, 121 not out against Victoria in 1949–50.[2] He was selected in the Australian team that toured New Zealand in 1949–50 under Bill Brown, but made only 80 runs in four first-class matches in the damp conditions.[4]

His attractive unbeaten 70 against MCC in 1950–51 was described punningly in one British paper as "far from a dull dig".[5] The next season, he top-scored in South Australia's second innings against the West Indians, making 66 out of a total of 155 on a turning pitch.[6] South Australia won the Sheffield Shield in his last season, 1952–53, but he lost form and missed the last match in which South Australia clinched the title.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ridings, Duldig for New Zealand". The Advertiser: 10. 5 January 1950. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 151.
  3. ↑ "Service Record: Duldig, Lance Desmond". www.ww2roll.gov.au. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  4. ↑ Wisden 1951, p. 829.
  5. ↑ Wisden 1999, p. 1477.
  6. ↑ "South Australia v West Indians, 1951–52". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  7. ↑ Wisden 1954, p. 851.
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