{{short description|Australian cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Dean Trowse | image = | country = Australia | fullname = Dean Frederick Trowse | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1931|10|18}} | birth_place = Rose Park, South Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|9|24|1931|10|18|df=yes}} | death_place = Auchenflower, Queensland | nickname = | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | club1 = South Australia | year1 = 1951–52 to 1955–56 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 22 | runs1 = 911 | bat avg1 = 23.97 | 100s/50s1 = 1/4 | top score1 = 102 | deliveries1 = – | wickets1 = – | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 15/0 | date = 6 May | year = 2014 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/8067.html Cricinfo }} '''Dean Frederick Trowse''' (18 October 1931 – 24 September 2005) was a first-class cricketer who played for South Australia from 1952 to 1955.
His best season was 1952–53, when he scored 471 runs at an average of 33.64,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16800/f_Batting_by_Season.html Dean Trowse batting by season]</ref> including three fifties and his only century, 102 against New South Wales.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/20/20524.html New South Wales v South Australia 1952-53]</ref> In the next match he made 98 in 165 minutes against Queensland, the top score of a match which South Australia won by an innings, clinching the Sheffield Shield for the first time since 1938–39.<ref>''Wisden'' 1954, p. 851.</ref> Earlier in the season he made 74 against the touring South Africans, prompting the South Africa captain Jack Cheetham to call him "one of the best of the younger players in Australia" who "should have been taken to England with the Australian side" in 1953.<ref>Jack Cheetham, ''Caught by the Springboks'', Howard B. Timmins, Cape Town, 1953, p. 46.</ref>
Failing to develop as a batsman, Trowse lost his place in the South Australian team in 1955-56 and lived for some time in Canada. When MCC toured Canada in 1959 he made 87 not out against them for Toronto Cricket Club in a one-day match,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/137/137787.html Toronto Cricket Club v MCC 1959]</ref> and 46 and 59 for Canada in a three-day match.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/137/137801.html Canada v MCC 1959]</ref>
He worked as a chartered accountant.<ref>{{cite web |title=UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1960 |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/2997/images/41039_b001993-00367 |website=Ancestry.com.au |access-date=20 February 2022}}</ref> He later lived in the Brisbane suburb of Chapel Hill.<ref>{{cite web |title=Australia, Electoral Rolls: Indooroopilly, 1980 |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/93953996:1207|website=Ancestry.com.au |access-date=20 February 2022}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16800/16800.html Dean Trowse at CricketArchive] * {{Cricinfo|id=8067}}
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