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Mervyn Burden
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Personal information
Full name
Mervyn Derek Burden
Born 4 October 1930
Southampton, Hampshire, England
Died 9 November 1987 (aged 57)
Whitchurch, Hampshire, England
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right-arm off-break
Role Bowler
Domestic team information
Years Team
1953�1963 Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 174
Runs scored 901
Batting average 6.82
100s/50s 0/1
Top score 51
Balls bowled 29,210
Wickets 481
Bowling average 26.11
5 wickets in innings 23
10 wickets in match 4
Best bowling 8/38
Catches/stumpings 76/�
Source: Cricinfo, 10 December 2009
Mervyn Derek Burden (4 October 1930 � 9 November 1987) was an English cricketer.
Burden was a right-arm off break bowler and a right-handed tail-end batsman.

Burden initially had a trial with Hampshire in 1947, reportedly turning up with no
pads or bat. His first delivery of his trial flew over the nets without bouncing
and shattered a dining-room window.[1]

Burden played first-class cricket for 11 seasons, making his debut in 1953 against
Worcestershire. Over the next ten years he made 174 appearances for the club,
taking 481 wickets with his off breaks. His batting yielded few results, with
Burden making only one half century in his career, that being a score of 51 runs as
a nightwatchman against Warwickshire in 1960. Burden helped Hampshire win the 1961
County Championship, taking 50 wickets during their first-ever title-winning
campaign. His final first-class match for Hampshire came in the 1963 County
Championship against Glamorgan.

Popular among both players and spectators, he was included in a 2005 list of
Hampshire cricket cult figures.[1] His obituary in Wisden declared, "The value of
such a man is not to be estimated in figures."[2] Tony Lewis said of him that "his
humour was never extinguished by failure" and noted that John Arlott called Burden
"salt of the cricketing earth".[3] Arlott devoted a chapter to Burden in John
Arlott's Book of Cricketers (Lutterworth Press, 1979).

Burden died in Whitchurch, Hampshire on 9 November 1987.

References
"Hampshire cult heroes". Cricinfo. December 2005. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
Wisden 1988, p. 1197.
Tony Lewis, Taking Fresh Guard, Headline, London, p. 103.
External links
Mervyn Burden at ESPNcricinfo

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