Edmund Fallowfield Longrigg, usually known as Bunty Longrigg, played cricket for Somerset and Cambridge University.
14 Facts About Bunty Longrigg
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Bunty Longrigg was captain of Somerset from 1938 to 1946 and later prominent in the county club administration.
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Bunty Longrigg was born at Batheaston, Somerset and died at Bath, Somerset.
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Bunty Longrigg was a left-handed middle order batsman and an occasional right-arm bowler.
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The son of Major G E Longrigg, who was a long-time Somerset county cricket committeeman and a solicitor in Bath, the younger Longrigg was educated at Rugby School, and made his Somerset debut in 1925, the year he left school.
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Bunty Longrigg achieved little in the University Match, but later in the season with Somerset he improved his highest score again, making 95 against Hampshire after five wickets had fallen 90 on a wet wicket at Weston-super-Mare.
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The 1929 and 1930 seasons were the only two where Bunty Longrigg was able to play fairly continuous county cricket until he became Somerset captain towards the end of the 1930s.
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Bunty Longrigg scored 1,567 runs at an average of 30.72 and hit four centuries.
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Bunty Longrigg played more often in home matches than away, and seemed to be available most often in the cricket festival at Bath, where he made at least one appearance every season except 1936.
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In 1937, Bunty Longrigg played for Somerset more often, turning out in 11 matches and captaining the side on occasion in the absence of the regular captain, his fellow Bath solicitor Reggie Ingle.
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At the age of 40, Bunty Longrigg's was not a great contribution in terms of runs, though he managed four 50s in the season.
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Bunty Longrigg made only two further appearances in first-class cricket, both in the 1947 season.
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Bunty Longrigg was an important figure in the administration of Somerset cricket for much of the rest of his life, acting as both county chairman and president.
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Bunty Longrigg was involved in some of the fractiousness that surrounded the departure of the professional Harold Stephenson as captain and his replacement by the unpaid Colin Atkinson, and was forced to resign as chairman after a vote of no confidence at a special meeting amid reports of player rebellion.