{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Ted Dunning | image = | fullname = Edward James Dunning | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|4|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand | death_date = {{death date and age|1937|3|14|1913|4|22|df=yes}} | death_place = Leigh, New Zealand | batting = | bowling = | role =

| date = 5 June 2016 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36939.html Cricinfo }} '''Edward James Dunning''' (22 April 1913 &ndash; 14 March 1937) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Auckland in 1936/37.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36860.html |title=Ted Dunning |access-date=5 June 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref><ref name="CA">{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21821/21821.html |title=Ted Dunning |access-date=5 June 2016 |work=Cricket Archive}}</ref>

Dunning started his career in Whangateau, Rodney County. After a season where he scored more than 1,700 runs, he moved to Auckland and played for Grafton United Cricket Club. He scored a fifty in the trial match and was included in the Auckland side that travelled to Otago and Canterbury to play in the Plunket Shield during the Christmas of 1936. Dunning opened the innings in both matches, but was out without scoring each time.

When Jack Cowie was selected to New Zealand's tour of England in 1937, Dunning was among a group of friends who went to celebrate in a launch in Murrays Bay. On the way back, the dinghy carrying Dunning and four others (including Mal Matheson and Frederick Byerley) capsized. The others were saved but Dunning could not be found. His body washed up on the beach next morning.<ref>Richard Irving, "United We Stand - 150 years of the Grafton United Cricket Club", 2013</ref><ref>[https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS19370315.2.18 Rep Cricketer Died] Thames Star, March 15, 1937 </ref>

==See also== * List of Auckland representative cricketers

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