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Full name Edward Ralph Dexter
Born May 15, 1935, Milan, Italy
Current age 73 years 150 days
Major teams England,Cambridge University,Sussex
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
62
102
8
4502
205
47.89
9
27
16
29
0
First-class
327
567
48
21150
205
40.75
51
108
233
0
List A
43
41
5
1209
115
33.58
1
8
16
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
62
80
5317
2306
66
4/10
6/77
34.93
2.60
80.5
2
0
0
First-class
327
26249
12539
419
7/24
29.92
2.86
62.6
9
2
List A
43
575
417
21
3/6
3/6
19.85
4.35
27.3
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v New Zealand at Manchester, Jul 24-29, 1958 scorecard
Last Test
England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 22-27, 1968 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1956 - 1968
List A span
1963 - 1972
Profile
Wisden overview
There was no more exhilarating sight in English cricket than Ted Dexter when he was savaging fast bowling. Though he had the patience and technique to develop a long innings or fight a rearguard action according to the position of a match - six of his nine Test hundreds were bigger than 140 - it was the naked power of his driving on the counter-attack that fired the imagination. An athletic six-footer with something of the feline grace and strength of the golfer Tiger Woods, Dexter's most famous innings was the 70 he smashed, from 73 balls, off Wes Hall and Charlie Griffith, after coming in when England were 0 for 1 in the 1963 Lord's against West Indies. In county cricket, Dexter was the only batsman who habitually dominated Derek Underwood, regularly scoring hundreds for Sussex against Kent. In 1968, on his first Championship appearance after two years of semi-retirement, he blasted them for a devastating 203 which immediately won him back his Test place. Dexter was a magnificent allround games player. His next-best game was golf - he won the Oxford & Cambridge President's Putter three times, the last time at the age of 52 - and he was arguably the leading cricketer-golfer Britain has ever produced. Early retirement gave "Lord Ted" scope to turn his restless mind to many interests, among them forming a PR company and covering cricket as a broadcaster and writer. In 1989 a new cricket post in cricket was created for him, the chairmanship of the "England Committee", for which he did much important groundwork for the future. But in his twin role as chairman of selectors, his judgment let him down. A sequence of glaring mistakes, culminating in the omission of David Gower and Jack Russell from Graham Gooch's 1992-93 touring team to India, led to Dexter's resignation in 1993 after Australia thrashed England for the third time in successive Ashes series. John Thicknesse
