John Bridger

John Richard Bridger (8 April 1920 – 14 July 1986) was an English cricketer, clergyman and educator.

Life and cricket career Bridger was born at Dulwich in April 1920. He was educated at Rugby School, where he played for and captained the school cricket team. In one match in which he was captain against Marlborough, he scored 153 runs in three hours, took figures of 5 for 54, and held four catches in the Marlborough first innings. From there, he matriculated to Clare College, Cambridge. As a theology student, he was exempt from military service during the Second World War. He was a member of the Cambridge University Cricket Club during his studies, but owing to the suspension of first-class cricket during the war, none of the matches he played for Cambridge were rated as first-class and blues were not awarded; this was despite Bridger opening the batting in three University Matches against Oxford University, which had been curtailed to one-day matches. scoring 49 runs in the Under-33 first innings. Following season, he made a first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Cambridge University, In these, he scored 1,725 an average of 27.82, with a highest score of 142. He made two centuries and ten fifties. He had a reputation as an excellent fielder, In 1958 he became warden of Tyndale House, a biblical studies centre in Cambridge. Bridger died following a car accident on 14 July 1986 at Burley, Hampshire.