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| Full name | Michael Ormonde Cleasby Sturt | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1941-12-12) 12 December 1941 (age 83) Wembley, Middlesex, England | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1978 | Middlesex | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 30 September 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Michael Ormonde Cleasby Sturt (born 12 September 1941) is an English businessman and cricketer.
Mike Sturt was born in Wembley, Middlesex. He played county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club in six separate seasons between 1961 and 1978, as a right-handed lower-order batsman and a highly efficient deputy wicketkeeper, for most of the period playing only when John Murray was not available through Test or other commitments. He was a member of Middlesex's championship-winning team of 1976 after Mike Brearley asked him to play when the county's other wicket-keepers became unavailable.
Sturt combined a successful business career in the City with his cricket. He was a longtime committee member for both Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Middlesex. He has served as an MCC Trustee and as the County Chairman of Middlesex in 1993, before he suddenly resigned due to "a matter of principle".
References
- ^ "Mike Sturt". Middlesex CCC. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- "Michael Sturt". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
- "Mike Sturt". Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- Stephen Chalke, The Way It Was: Glimpses of English Cricket's Past, Fairfield Books, Bath, 2010, pp. 96–97.
- "Cricket: Sturt resigns as Middlesex chairman". The Independent. 24 December 1993. Retrieved 19 November 2024.