Tom Dewdney

Who is Tom Dewdney?

David Thomas Dewdney was a West Indian cricketer who played in nine Tests between 1955 and 1958.

After only two first-class matches for Jamaica in 1954-55 in which he took 3 wickets, Tom Dewdney was selected to open the bowling in the Fourth and Fifth Tests against Australia later that season. He took 4 for 125 in the first innings of the Fourth Test, and was selected to tour New Zealand in 1955-56. He took 8 wickets in the three Tests he played there, and "added to his stature as a promising new-ball bowler". He took 5 for 21 off 19.5 overs in the first innings of the Fourth Test in Auckland.

He took his best first-class figures of 7 for 55 against a Duke of Norfolk's XI composed mostly of English Test players in 1956-57, and was selected to tour England in 1957. He was reasonably successful in the first-class matches, taking 36 wickets at 27.05, including 5 for 69 against Gloucestershire and 5 for 38 against Hampshire, but Roy Gilchrist and Frank Worrell were preferred as opening bowlers in the Tests, and he played only in the Fifth Test, replacing Gilchrist, who was sick, and taking one wicket.