About Dickie Burrough

Herbert Dickinson \"Dickie\" Burrough, born at Wedmore, Somerset, on February 6, 1909, and died at Padstow, Cornwall, on April 9, 1994, played 171 first-class cricket matches for Somerset in a career that last for 20 years from 1927. An amateur right-handed batsman who sometimes opened the innings, Burrough played fairly regular first-class cricket for Somerset in the early 1930s, making useful runs and fielding athletically. He was, said his obituary in Wisden, \"notably enthusiastic\".[1] He had been at Cambridge University, but appeared there in only one trial match for \"seniors\", and never made the first-class cricket side. He was also passed over at Cambridge for hockey, failing to win his university Blue for the sport, though he later played three times for the England team. In 1931, he played cricket regularly for Somerset, though his highest score was only 55 and he averaged