Dickie Dodds
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| Full name | Thomas Carter Dodds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 May 1919 Bedford, Bedfordshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 September 2001 (aged 82) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Dickie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Role | Opening batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1946–1959 | Essex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 11 February 1944 Services XI v Indian XI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 16 June 1961 MCC v Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 21 January 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thomas Carter Dodds, known in his cricket career as Dickie Dodds and outside it as Carter Dodds, (29 May 1919 – 17 September 2001) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Essex between 1946 and 1959 as a hard-hitting opening batsman. He was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire and died in Cambridge.
The son of a clergyman, Dodds was a strong supporter of the Moral Re-Armament movement and cricket was, in his view, "a reflection of the Great Creator" and should therefore be played in a suitably dashing and creative style.