Tony Diment, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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cricketer
Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1927
Place of Birth: Tortworth, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 18-Jun-2005
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Tony Diment
- Robert Anthony "Tony" Diment (9 February 1927 – 18 June 2005) was an English cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in 1952 and for Leicestershire between 1955 and 1958.
- He was born at Tortworth, Gloucestershire and died at Leicester. Diment was a right-handed middle-order batsman who was recruited by Leicestershire in 1955 as assistant secretary to the secretary/captain, Charles Palmer, and was therefore allowed to play as an amateur.
- He played in 59 first-class games for the county over the next four seasons, being a fairly regular member of the side in both 1957 and 1958.
- But although he passed 50 in six innings, his career batting average was only 16 and his highest first-class score was just 71, made in his first match for Leicestershire, against Derbyshire in 1955.
- He had earlier played a single match for his native Gloucestershire in 1952, without success. Palmer retired as both player and secretary at the end of the 1957 season.
- Diment succeeded him as secretary, but Leicestershire recruited Willie Watson, the Yorkshire and England professional player, as captain from 1958.
- When Watson regained his Test place that season and also missed a few matches through injury, Diment captained the Leicestershire team in five games: they included the last game he played in first-class cricket.Diment remained as the secretary of Leicestershire until after the 1959 season, but played only for the second eleven that year.
- In a Minor Counties Championship match against Shropshire in July 1959 he made an unbeaten 200 at more than a run a ball, astonishingly fast for an era of stodgy batsmanship.
- But at the end of that season he left Leicestershire to take a job in the leather industry.
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