David Mordaunt

David John Mordaunt (24 August 1937 – 28 November 2020) was an English cricketer, teacher and expeditioner.

David Mordaunt
Personal information
Full nameDavid John Mordaunt
Born(1937-08-24)24 August 1937
Chelsea, London, England
Died28 November 2020(2020-11-28) (aged 83)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium-fast
RelationsGerald Mordaunt (grandfather)
John Mordaunt (great-grandfather)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1964Marylebone Cricket Club
1964–1974Berkshire
1958–1960Sussex
Career statistics
Competition FC LA
Matches 20 4
Runs scored 599 144
Batting average 23.03 36.00
100s/50s  –/5  –/2
Top score 96 60
Balls bowled 1,083 219
Wickets 24 3
Bowling average 25.04 44.00
5 wickets in innings 1  –
10 wickets in match  –  –
Best bowling 5/42 3/24
Catches/stumpings 15/ – 2/ –
Source: Cricinfo, 31 May 2010

Cricket career

Mordaunt was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He made his first-class debut in 1958 for Sussex in the game against Oxford University, scoring 96 in the second innings, when he was caught trying to hit his fourth six, which would have given him a century on debut.[1] From 1958 to 1960, Mordaunt played 19 first-class matches for Sussex as an amateur, his final match for the county coming against Gloucestershire in the 1960 County Championship. He scored 586 runs for Sussex at a batting average of 24.41, with five half-centuries and highest score of 96.[2] With the ball he took 19 wickets at a bowling average of 28.89, with a single five wicket haul of 5 for 42.[3]

Mordaunt left Sussex at the end of the 1960 season. He played his final first-class match in 1964 for Marylebone Cricket Club against Ireland.[4] With the MCC he also toured North America in 1959, South America in 1964-65, and North America again in 1967.[5]

In 1964 Mordaunt joined the minor county Berkshire, and made his Minor Counties Championship debut against Devon. From 1964 to 1974, he played 40 Minor Counties Championship matches for Berkshire.[6] He made his List A debut for Berkshire against Somerset in the 1st round of the 1965 Gillette Cup, scoring 60, including four sixes off the bowling of Bill Alley, and winning the man of the match award.[7][8] He played three further one-day matches for the county, against Hertfordshire in the 1st round of the 1966 Gillette Cup, against Gloucestershire in the 2nd round of the same tournament, and finally against Hertfordshire in the 1976 Gillette Cup. In his four one-day matches he scored 144 runs at an average of 36.00, with two half-centuries and a highest score of 60.[9] With the ball he took three wickets at an average of 44.00, with best figures of 3/24.[10] He represented Old Wellingtonians in the Cricketer Cup between 1967 and 1986.[11]

Main career

Mordaunt was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and was a prominent schoolboy cricketer.[12] Between 1955 and 1957 he served in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.[13] He became a schoolteacher in Oxford in 1958.[1] He returned to Wellington College in 1963 to teach mathematics.

He was also a noted expeditioner, leading three Royal Geographical Schools Expeditions to the Arctic and, in 1983, a Royal Geographical Society expedition through Nepal to the base of Annapurna.[14]

He died on 28 November 2020 at the age of 83.[15]

Family

He married Dr Catharine Hilary Mayne in 1990.[13] Mordaunt's grandfather, Gerald Mordaunt, and his great-grandfather, John Mordaunt, both played first-class cricket.

References
  1. Wisden 1959, p. 652.
  2. First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by David Mordaunt
  3. First-class Bowling For Each Team by David Mordaunt
  4. Ireland v Marylebone Cricket Club, Marylebone Cricket Club in Ireland 1964
  5. "Miscellaneous Matches played by David Mordaunt". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  6. Minor Counties Championship Matches played by David Mordaunt
  7. Wisden 1966, p. 643.
  8. List A Matches played by David Mordaunt
  9. List-A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by David Mordaunt
  10. List-A Bowling For Each Team by David Mordaunt
  11. "David Mordaunt". The Cricketer Cup. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  12. Wisden 1956, p. 800.
  13. "Person Page - 51704". The Peerage. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  14. The Yateley Society Newsletter No. 20, October 1984.
  15. Mordaunt
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