Podge Brodhurst
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- Travis Head
- Josh Inglis
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- Mitchell Marsh
- Steven Smith
- Mitchell Starc
- David Warner
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Alphabetically sorted top ten of players who have played the most matches across formats in the last 12 months
Full Name
Arthur Hugh Brodhurst
Born
July 21, 1916, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died
June 24, 2006, Winchester, (aged 89y 338d)
Nicknames
Podge
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Education
Malvern; Cambridge University
RELATIONS
(brother-in-law),
(father-in-law)
Podge Brodhurst secured a cricket Blue in 1939 after staying on an extra year at Cambridge to do so, with the high spot of his final year being 106 not out against a decent Yorkshire attack, which he followed with 111 against Leicestershire. In the Varsity match he made 34 and 45 in a losing cause. He went on to play five times for Gloucestershire later that summer. He narrowly missed a football Blue, playing in every match before being dropped for the game itself. In 1938-39 he took part in a combined Oxford and Cambridge cricket/football tour of the Caribbean, and in one match he dropped George Headley. "Hey man," a spectator yelled, "you've just dropped the world." In the war he served with the Royal Artillery, and at the siege of Tobruk he was seen carrying around a cricket bag and asking if anyone fancied a net. After the war he taught at Winchester and acted as the school's cricket master in three separate spells.
Martin Williamson
Podge Brodhurst's major cricket achievements were not as a player but as a nurturer of talent and father figure to boys at Winchester College. He was a housemaster for 17 years at the school that produced Douglas Jardine and among his many charges was the then Nawab of Pataudi, India's greatest captain. Podge had a soft spot for those who excelled at cricket, rackets and those who pushed the boundaries of discipline, as
long as they didn't push too far. He won a Cambridge Blue for cricket and scored a hundred against a Yorkshire team containing Hedley Verity and Bill Bowes. He played half a dozen games for Gloucestershire either side of the war, which he spent commanding anti-aircraft units in the North African desert. He returned to Winchester in 1946, married Meg Altham - daughter of the administrator and author Harry Altham - and became one of the college's best-loved figures. He remained ever-present at the school long after his retirement, watching sport and offering a kindly word to all boys both past and present. His wife Meg survives
him.
Ed Craig, The Wisden Cricketer
Podge Brodhurst Career Stats
Batting & Fielding
Format | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100s | Ct | St |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FC | 20 | 33 | 2 | 658 | 111 | 21.22 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
Bowling
Format | Mat | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | Ave | Econ | SR | 5w | 10w |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FC | 20 | 614 | 321 | 6 | 4/83 | 53.50 | 3.13 | 102.3 | 0 | 0 |
Recent Matches of Podge Brodhurst
Match | Bat | Date | Ground | Format |
---|---|---|---|---|
Gloucs vs West Indians | 3 & 7* | 12-Aug-1939 | Cheltenham | FC |