{{short description|English cricketer and businessman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Michael Sturt | image = | country = | fullname = Michael Ormonde Cleasby Sturt | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|12|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Wembley, Middlesex, England | death_date = | death_place = | nickname = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Wicket-keeper | club1 = Middlesex | year1 = 1961–1978 | clubnumber1 = | columns = 2 | column1 = FC | matches1 = 33 | runs1 = 202 | bat avg1 = 7.76 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 26 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 64/8 | column2 = List A | matches2 = 1 | runs2 = – | bat avg2 = – | 100s/50s2 = – | top score2 = – | catches/stumpings2 = 0/1 | date = 30 September 2022 | source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/mike-sturt-21108 Cricinfo }} '''Michael Ormonde Cleasby Sturt''' (born 12 September 1941) is an English businessman and cricketer.
Mike Sturt was born in Wembley, Middlesex.<ref name=MCCC>{{cite web |title=Mike Sturt |url=https://www.middlesexccc.com/squads/hall-of-fame/mike-sturt |website=Middlesex CCC |access-date=30 September 2022}}</ref> He played county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club in six separate seasons between 1961 and 1978, as a right-handed lower-order batsman and a highly efficient deputy wicketkeeper, for most of the period playing only when John Murray was not available through Test or other commitments.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33108/33108.html| title = Michael Sturt | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 2010-03-10}}</ref> He was a member of Middlesex's championship-winning team of 1976 after Mike Brearley asked him to play when the county's other wicket-keepers became unavailable.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mike Sturt |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/mike-sturt-21108 |website=Cricinfo |access-date=30 September 2022}}</ref><ref>Stephen Chalke, ''The Way It Was: Glimpses of English Cricket's Past'', Fairfield Books, Bath, 2010, pp. 96–97.</ref>
Sturt combined a successful business career in the City with his cricket. He was a longtime committee member for both Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Middlesex. He has served as an MCC Trustee and as the County Chairman of Middlesex in 1993, before he suddenly resigned due to "a matter of principle".<ref name=MCCC/><ref>{{cite news |title=Cricket: Sturt resigns as Middlesex chairman |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket-sturt-resigns-as-middlesex-chairman-disappointing-day-for-donald-1469380.html |access-date=19 November 2024 |work=The Independent |date=24 December 1993}}</ref>
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