Ken Suttle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ken Suttle

cricketer

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1928

Place of Birth: Hammersmith, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Mar-2005

Profession: association football player, cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Kenneth George 'Ken' Suttle (born 25 August 1928 at Brook Green, Hammersmith, London; died 25 March 2005 while on holiday in Mauritius) was an English cricketer.
He was primarily a left-handed batsman but was also a useful slow left-arm bowler.
His first-class career with Sussex lasted from 1949 to 1971.
He played in 612 first-class matches.
This included an unbroken sequence of 423 consecutive County Championship matches between 1954 and 1969, which is still the record number.He made 30225 first-class runs at 31.09, with 49 centuries and a highest score of 204*, reaching 1000 runs in 17 successive seasons from 1953 to 1969.
He took 266 wickets at 32.80, with best innings figures of 6-64. He played in 55 List A one-day matches, and was a member of the Sussex side which won the Gillette Cup in 1963 and 1964 (the first two years of the competition). He toured the West Indies with England in 1953-54, but never played in a Test.
He stands equal third with Les Berry in the list of players with most first-class runs not to have done so.
[1] After leaving Sussex he played for Suffolk for two seasons, ran an equipment shop, then coached at Christ's Hospital.
He umpired a handful of first-class university matches in 1983.
He made three first-team appearances as a winger for Brighton & Hove Albion FC in 1949. Player/manager of Arundel FC when they won consecutive Sussex County League Division One titles in 1957/58 and 1958/59 seasons.