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Cec Dixon

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match played at Johannesburg in 1923/24. In that season Dixon took 33 wickets at an average of exactly 10 runs apiece, topped the national bowling averages and helped
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where he took 4 for 14 and 6 for 39 to gain his only five-wicket haul of the tour and the only ten-wicket match of his career. He did not play in any of the
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in the third match of the series, Dixon failed to score in either innings and took three wickets for 118 runs in the match, including the great
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He played just one further first-class match after the 1924 tour. Since his death in 1969 no obituary for him has appeared in
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on that tour. He had played his sole Test ten years earlier at Johannesburg. Playing against an England side led by
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during the summer of 1924 but was rather disappointing. His only success of note was against
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compiled and edited by Bill Frindall, published by Headline Book Publishing (1995).
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by Christopher Martin-Jenkins, published by Oxford University Press (1996).
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His best figures, 7 for 16, were gained at the expense of
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Cec Dixon was a medium-to-fast-medium pace bowler and
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The Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Volume 1 (1877–1977)
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Cecil Dixon (disambiguation)

South Africa
Tests
First-class
Batting average
Balls
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
stumpings
Cricinfo
Potchefstroom
South African Republic
Johannesburg
first-class cricket
Potchefstroom High School for Boys
tail-end batsman
bowler
five wickets in an innings
ten wickets in a match
Griqualand West
Currie Cup
Transvaal
England
South Africa
Scotland
Glasgow
Tests
J.W.H.T. Douglas

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