John Bridger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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cricketer
Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1896
Place of Birth: Dulwich, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 14-Jul-1996
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About John Bridger
- Reverend John Richard Bridger (8 April 1920 – 14 July 1986) was an English cricketer.
- Bridger was a right-handed batsman and a leg break bowler. Bridger was educated at Rugby School, where he played cricket for the school from 1935 to 1938.
- In one match in which he captained the Rugby side Bridger scored 153 runs in three hours, held four catches in the Marlborough first innings and took 5/54.
- Bridger later went to Clare College, Cambridge University, where as a Theology student he was exempt from military service in World War II.
- He was a member of the Cambridge University cricket team from 1941 to 1943, when owing to wartime restrictions university matches were not first-class.
- He opened the batting in the university match, a one-day match, in all three years.Bridger made his first-class debut in 1945 for an Under-33 side against an Over-33 side at Lord's, scoring 49 in the Under-33's first innings.
- In 1946 he played his only first-class game for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University, where he scored his maiden half century, making 94 runs. Bridger became a school chaplain.
- He made 38 first-class appearances as an amateur for Hampshire between 1946 and 1954, playing in the holidays.
- He made his County Championship debut for Hampshire in 1946 against local rivals Sussex, scoring 50.
- In the next match, which followed immediately, against Middlesex, he scored his maiden first-class century with a score of 142 after Hampshire had followed on 219 behind.
- Those were his only two matches for the season.
- Wisden commented that "in the two matches he took part he showed himself a player of class".Bridger's second century came in 1953 when he made 61 and 102 not out against Worcestershire.
- In 1954 he was awarded his County Cap, and captained the side in his last five first-class matches in August.
- In his 38 first-class matches for the club, he scored 1,725 runs at an average of 27.82, with a highest score of 142.
- He made two centuries and 10 fifties and took 29 catches.
- He had a reputation as an excellent fielder.In 1954 Bridger wrote an article for The Churchman titled "The Public School Chaplain's Job".
- In 1958 he became warden of Tyndale House, a biblical studies centre in Cambridge.He died in a road accident at Burley, Hampshire, on 14 July 1986.
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