{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Bill Dustin | image = | fullname = William Henry Dustin | birth_date = {{birth date|1909|8|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = Palmerston North, New Zealand | death_date = {{death date and age|2001|9|24|1909|8|30|df=yes}} | death_place = Whanganui, New Zealand | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Opening batsman | club1 = Wellington | year1 = {{nowrap|1927/28–1943/44}} | clubnumber1 = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 11 | runs1 = 435 | bat avg1 = 21.75 | 100s/50s1 = 0/3 | top score1 = 92 | deliveries1 = 38 | wickets1 = 1 | bowl avg1 = 27.00 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 1/11 | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 26 October 2023 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36942.html Cricinfo }} '''William Henry Dustin''' (30 August 1909 – 24 September 2001) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in eleven first-class matches for Wellington from 1927 to 1944.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36942.html |title=William Dustin |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=24 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21824/21824.html |title=Bill Dustin |work= CricketArchive |access-date=24 October 2020}}</ref>
Dustin and his twin brother were born in Palmerston North and attended Wellington College. Both played senior rugby and cricket in Wellington.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Dustin Twins |journal=Manawatu Standard |date=18 May 1936 |page=4 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19360518.2.51}}</ref>
Bill Dustin was a right-handed opening batsman. He had his best season in 1931–32, when he formed an effective opening partnership with Stewie Dempster. He scored 186 runs in the Plunket Shield in that season, with a top score of 92 in a partnership of 239 with Dempster in the match against Canterbury,<ref>{{cite web |title=Wellington v Canterbury 1931–32 |url=https://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1931-32/NZ_LOCAL/PS/WELL_CANT_PS_01-05JAN1932.html |website=Cricinfo |access-date=26 October 2023}}</ref> and Wellington won the Shield.<ref>T. W. Reese, ''New Zealand Cricket: 1914–1933'', Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1936, pp. 517–22.</ref>
Dustin served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force in World War II.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Births |journal=Evening Post |date=14 September 1943 |page=1 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19430914.2.2}}</ref> In 1942 he was the proprietor of a guesthouse in Otaki.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Zealand, World War II Ballot Lists, 1940-1945 |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/6166/images/42024_b0154334-00080 |website=Ancestry.com.au |access-date=26 October 2023}}</ref>
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