{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Ken Suttle | image = File:Ken Suttle.jpg | caption = | fullname = Kenneth George Suttle | birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|8|25|df=y}} | birth_place = Hammersmith, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2005|3|25|1928|8|25|df=y}} | death_place = Port Louis, Mauritius | batting = Left-handed | bowling = Slow left-arm orthodox | columns = 2 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 612 | runs1 = 30225 | bat avg1 = 31.09 | 100s/50s1 = 49/156 | top score1 = 204* | deliveries1 = 21186 | wickets1 = 266 | bowl avg1 = 32.80 | fivefor1 = 1 | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 6-64 | catches/stumpings1= 384/3 | column2 = List A | matches2 = 55 | runs2 = 1075 | bat avg2 = 22.39 | 100s/50s2 = 2/3 | top score2 = 104 | deliveries2 = 738 | wickets2 = 16 | bowl avg2 = 28.18 | fivefor2 = – | tenfor2 = n/a | best bowling2 = 4-24 | catches/stumpings2= 12/- | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33137/33137.html CricketArchive | date = | year = }} {{Infobox football biography | name = | image = | fullname = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | position = Winger | youthyears1 = 1947–1948 | youthclubs1 = Worthing | years1 = 1948 | clubs1 = Chelsea | caps1 = 0 | goals1 = 0 | years2 = 1948–1949 | clubs2 = Brighton & Hove Albion | caps2 = 3 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = – | clubs3 = Chelmsford City | caps3 = | goals3 = }}
'''Kenneth George Suttle''' (25 August 1928 – 25 March 2005) was an English cricketer.
==Cricket career== Ken Suttle was primarily a left-handed batsman but was also a useful slow left-arm bowler. His first-class career with Sussex lasted from 1949 to 1971. He played in 612 first-class matches. This included an unbroken sequence of 423 consecutive County Championship matches between 1954 and 1969, which is still the record number.<ref name="OTD">{{cite news |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149816.html |title=Symonds smashes 16 sixes |publisher=ESPN Cricinfo |date=25 August 2017 |accessdate=25 August 2017}}</ref>
Suttle was a quick-footed, unorthodox batsman, endlessly fidgeting at the crease between deliveries.<ref name=WCA>''Wisden'' 2006, pp. 1531–32.</ref> He made 30225 first-class runs at an average of 31.09, with 49 centuries, reaching 1000 runs in 17 successive seasons from 1953 to 1969.<ref name=WCA/> In 1962 he scored more than 2000 runs in the County Championship, and made his highest score of 204 not out against Kent.<ref>''Wisden'' 1963, p. 612.</ref> He took 266 wickets at 32.80, with best innings figures of 6 for 64 against Worcestershire in 1970.<ref>{{cite web |title=Worcestershire v Sussex 1970 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/31/31011.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=15 July 2020}}</ref>
He played in 55 List A one-day matches, and was a member of the Sussex side which won the Gillette Cup in 1963 and 1964 (the first two years of the competition). He won the Man of the Match award in a quarter-final of the Gillette Cup in 1968, scoring 100 in a seven-run victory for Sussex over Northamptonshire.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sussex v Northamptonshire 1968 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1960S/1968/ENG_LOCAL/GLTE/SUSSEX_NORTHANTS_GLTE_03JUL1968.html |website=Cricinfo |accessdate=15 July 2020}}</ref>
He toured the West Indies with England in 1953-54, but never played in a Test. He stands equal third with Les Berry in the list of players with most first-class runs not to have played a Test.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Basevi |first1=Travis and George Binoy |title=Flying first class |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/23009249 |website=Cricinfo |accessdate=15 July 2020}}</ref>
After leaving Sussex he played for Suffolk for two seasons, ran an equipment shop, then coached at Christ's Hospital. He umpired a handful of first-class university matches in 1983.<ref name=WCA/>
==Outside cricket== Suttle was educated at Worthing High School.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ken Suttle |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33137/33137.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=15 July 2020}}</ref> In the 1950s he played football as well as cricket. He made three first-team appearances as a winger for Brighton & Hove Albion FC in 1949.<ref name=WCA/> He was player/manager of Arundel F.C. when they won consecutive Sussex County League Division One titles in the 1957/58 and 1958/59 seasons.
He died in 2005 while on holiday in Mauritius.<ref name=WCA/>
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