Dudley Pope (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1906
Place of Birth: Barnes, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 08-Sep-1934
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Dudley Pope (cricketer)
- Dudley Fairbridge Pope (28 October 1906 – 8 September 1934) was an English cricketer.
- A right-handed batsman, Pope was born in Barnes and is recorded in the 1911 Census as living in Richmond, Surrey at age four.
- He played 159 first-class matches for Essex and Gloucestershire between 1925 and his death in a car accident in 1934.
- He scored 6,557 runs at 26.33, including seven centuries, and formed a "solid professional nucleus" along with such players as Jim Cutmore, Laurie Eastman, Jack O'Connor, Jack Russell and Stan Nichols.
- In 1933 Pope, along with many of these players, scored over 1,000 runs, the first time six batsmen had topped 1,000 in a season.
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