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Full name Herbert Richard Heard
Born Kingston 1910
Nickname
Batting style Right-hand top-order
Bowling style Legspin
Height 5 ft 11 in
Clubs Thames Ditton, Wanderers, Hampton Wick, Dulwich
School XI 1926 to 1928
OC Career 1928 to 1939

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat		Inns		NO		HS		Runs		Ave		50		100		Ct		St
OCCC

Bowling averages

	Overs		Mdns		Runs		Wkts		Ave		Best		5WI		SR		Econ
OCCC

Notes

Captain 1935

Profile

Dick Heard was one of the most successful batsman to come out of Cranleigh between the wars, and almost certainly the hardest-hitting. A superb allround sportsman – he was a first-team colour at all three major sports – he was a key member of the OCRFC, playing in the first match at TD and also found time to play hockey for Dulwich. He was in the Cranleigh side which played at The Oval in 1928, and later that summer played for Surrey Young Cricketers. His leaving Cranleigh coincided with the Depression and in 1929 and 1930 he played cricket almost non-stop. In 1929 he scored 3000 runs in the season, including a hundred in 29 minutes for Wanderers at Leatherhead and 88 in 24 minutes at Gravesend. His bowling was also in demand – in 1931 he took eight wickets in an innings twice. He started playing for the OCCC in 1928, being the leading scorer between 1929 and 1935 and scoring 505 runs in 1931, a record which stood for over fifty years. He captained the side in 1935, but work commitments meant that he did not play after the war.

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