Gilbert Dawson
Cricket Player
1916 – 1969
Who was Gilbert Dawson?
Gilbert Wilkinson Dawson was an English cricketer. Dawson was a right-handed batsman.
Dawson spent his early years in the game playing for East Bierley, Windhill and Pudsey St. Lawrence.
Dawson made his first-class debut for Hampshire in the 1947 County Championship against Middlesex. In the same season Dawson scored his maiden first-class century against Yorkshire at Dean Park in Bournemouth. Dawson played twelve matches in 1947, scoring 382 at an average of 22.47, with a high score of 124. Dawson made one century and one half century.
The 1948 season was Dawson played thirty matches, where he scored another century against Derbyshire. In total Dawson scored 1,229 at an average of 23.63. Dawson additionally scored five more half centuries and took 23 catches. During this season Dawson was awarded his Hampshire cap.
Statistically the 1949 season was Dawson's most successful with the club. Dawson scored 1,032 at an average of 33.29, with a high score of 158* against Nottinghamshire, with two centuries and four half centuries. Dawson was statistically second among Hampshire's players that year. Dawson's final first-class match came in the same season against Essex.
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