{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = George Pullinger | country = England | fullname = George Richard Pullinger | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|3|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = Islington, London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1982|8|4|1920|3|14|df=yes}} | death_place = Thurrock, Essex, England | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm fast-medium | role = Bowler | family = | club1 = Essex | year1 = 1949–1950 | clubnumber1 = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 18 | runs1 = 53 | bat avg1 = 5.88 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 14* | deliveries1 = 3,117 | wickets1 = 41 | bowl avg1 = 37.97 | fivefor1 = 1 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 5/54 | catches/stumpings1 = 14/– | date = 20 September | year = 2011 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/18642.html Cricinfo }}
'''George Richard Pullinger''' (14 March 1920 – 4 August 1982) was an English cricketer. Pullinger was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and tail-end right-handed batsman. He was born in Islington, London.
An amateur, Pullinger made his first-class debut for Essex against Middlesex in the 1949 County Championship as cover for Ken Preston.<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228603.html|title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1985|work=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|date=5 December 2005 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=20 September 2011}}</ref> Available for only the first half of the 1949 season, he made fifteen further appearances. He played twice more in the 1950 season, then disappeared from first-class cricket.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/5/5262/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by George Pullinger|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=20 September 2011}}</ref> He often opened the bowling with Trevor Bailey. In his eighteen first-class matches he took 41 wickets at an average of 37.97, with best figures of 5/54.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/5/5262/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by George Pullinger|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=20 September 2011}}</ref> These figures, which were his only first-class five wicket haul, came against Somerset in 1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1949/ENG_LOCAL/CC/SOMERSET_ESSEX_CC_18-21JUN1949.html|title=Somerset v Essex, 1949|publisher=Cricinfo|access-date=28 December 2025}}</ref> A true tailender, with the bat he scored 53 runs at a batting average of 5.88, with a high score of 14 not out.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/5/5262/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by George Pullinger|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=20 September 2011}}</ref>
Pullinger died at Thurrock, Essex, on 4 August 1982. His obituary appeared in the 1986 edition of ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack''.<ref>''Wisden'' 1986, p. 1218.</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/18642.html George Pullinger] at ESPNcricinfo *[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/5/5262/5262.html George Pullinger] at CricketArchive
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