Jim Pressdee

Jim Pressdee
Glamorgan (WAL)
Batting style Right-handed batsman
Bowling type Slow left-arm orthodox
First-class record
Matches 347
Runs scored 14267
Batting average 28.82
100s/50s 13
Top score 150*
Balls bowled 26137
Wickets 481
Bowling average 22.17
5 wickets in innings 21
10 wickets in match 5
Best Bowling 9-43
Catches/Stumpings 371
First class debut: -, 1949
Last first class game: -, 1970
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James Stuart "Jim" Pressdee (19 June 1933 – 20 July 2016)[1] was a Welsh first class cricketer. He was a left-arm spinner and aggressive right-handed batsman.

Pressdee made his debut for Glamorgan against Nottinghamshire at Cardiff Arms Park when just 16 years of age, making him the county's youngest player in the post-war period.[2] He won a Welsh youth cap at football and was on the books at Swansea Town.

A regular in the Glamorgan team from 1955 onwards, Pressdee scored a thousand runs in a season on six occasions, with 1911 in 1962 being his best. He scored 13 centuries including one for North-Eastern Transvaal.

Pressdee was an inconsistent bowler. Having taken 71 wickets in 1955, he captured only 54 during the next seven seasons, but then in 1963 and 1964 he came to prominence as an all-rounder, completing the double (1000 runs and 100 wickets) in each season. In 1965, he took 9 for 43 against Yorkshire at Swansea.[3] Pressdee emigrated to South Africa in 1965 where he played for North-Eastern Transvaal until 1969-70. He won the South African Cricket Annual Cricketer of the Year award in 1966 after taking 33 wickets.

Pressdee returned to Wales in the 1980s and captained the Glamorgan Colts side in the South Wales Cricket Association.

He is the father-in-law of former South African cricketer and Glamorgan captain Rodney Ontong.

References

  1. ↑ Former Glamorgan all-rounder Jim Pressdee dies aged 83
  2. ↑ "Glamorgan: Former all-rounder Jim Pressdee dies aged 83". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Glamorgan v Yorkshire 1965". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 September 2015.

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