# Bill Dustin

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**William Henry Dustin** (30 August 1909 – 24 September 2001) was a New Zealand [cricketer](/source/Cricket). He played in eleven [first-class](/source/First-class_cricket) matches for [Wellington](/source/Wellington_cricket_team) from 1927 to 1944.[1][2]

Dustin and his twin brother were born in [Palmerston North](/source/Palmerston_North) and attended [Wellington College](/source/Wellington_College,_Wellington). Both played senior rugby and cricket in Wellington.[3]

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](/source/Stewie_Dempster). He scored 186 runs in the [Plunket Shield](/source/Plunket_Shield) in that season, with a top score of 92 in a partnership of 239 with Dempster in the match against [Canterbury](/source/Canterbury_cricket_team),[4] and Wellington won the Shield.[5]

Dustin served in the [Royal New Zealand Air Force](/source/Royal_New_Zealand_Air_Force) in [World War II](/source/World_War_II).[6] In 1942 he was the proprietor of a [guesthouse](/source/Guesthouse) in [Otaki](/source/%C5%8Ctaki,_New_Zealand).[7]

## References

1. ["William Dustin"](http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36942.html). *ESPN Cricinfo*. Retrieved 24 October 2020.

1. ["Bill Dustin"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21824/21824.html). *CricketArchive*. Retrieved 24 October 2020.

1. ["The Dustin Twins"](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19360518.2.51). *Manawatu Standard*. 18 May 1936.

1. ["Wellington v Canterbury 1931–32"](https://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1931-32/NZ_LOCAL/PS/WELL_CANT_PS_01-05JAN1932.html). *Cricinfo*. Retrieved 26 October 2023.

1. [T. W. Reese](/source/Tom_Reese_(cricket_historian)), *New Zealand Cricket: 1914–1933*, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1936, pp. 517–22.

1. ["Births"](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19430914.2.2). *Evening Post*. 14 September 1943.

1. ["New Zealand, World War II Ballot Lists, 1940-1945"](https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/6166/images/42024_b0154334-00080). *Ancestry.com.au*. Retrieved 26 October 2023.

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