# Tony Pithey

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{{Infobox cricketer
| name              = Tony Pithey
| image             = File:Tony and David Pithey.jpg
| caption           = Pithey (left) with his brother [David](/source/David_Pithey)
| birth_date        = {{birth date|df=y|1933|7|17}}
| birth_place       = [Umtali](/source/Mutare), [Southern Rhodesia](/source/Southern_Rhodesia)
| death_date        = {{death date and age|df=y|2006|11|17|1933|7|17}}
| death_place       = [Southbroom](/source/Southbroom), South Africa
|          heightft = 
|        heightinch = 
| family            = [David Pithey](/source/David_Pithey) (brother)
| batting           = Right-handed
| bowling           = 
|              role = Batsman
| club1             = [Rhodesia](/source/Rhodesia_cricket_team)
| year1             = {{nowrap|1950/51–1968/69}}
| club2             = [Western Province](/source/Western_Province_cricket_team)
| year2             = {{nowrap|1955/56–1957/58}}
| columns           = 2
| column1           = [Test](/source/Test_cricket)
| matches1          = 17
| runs1             = 819
| bat avg1          = 31.50
| 100s/50s1         = 1/4
| top score1        = 154
| deliveries1       = 12
| wickets1          = 0
| bowl avg1         = –
| fivefor1          = –
| tenfor1           = –
| best bowling1     = –
| catches/stumpings1= 3/–
| column2           = [FC](/source/First-class_cricket)
| matches2          = 124 
| runs2             = 7,073
| bat avg2          = 35.90
| 100s/50s2         = 13/41
| top score2        = 170
| deliveries2       = 22
| wickets2          = 0
| bowl avg2         = –
| fivefor2          = –
| tenfor2           = –
| best bowling2     = –
| catches/stumpings2= 59/–
| international     = true
| internationalspan = 1957–1965
| country           = South Africa
| testdebutagainst  = England
|           testcap = 195
| testdebutdate     = 25 January
| testdebutyear     = 1957
| lasttestdate      = 12 February
| lasttestagainst   = England
| lasttestyear      = 1965
| source            = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/tony-pithey-46760 Cricinfo
| date              = 11 August
| year              = 2021
}}
'''Anthony John Pithey''' (17 July 1933 – 17 November 2006) was a [Rhodesia](/source/Rhodesia_cricket_team)n [cricket](/source/cricket)er who played in seventeen [Test matches](/source/Test_cricket) for [South Africa](/source/South_Africa_national_cricket_team) between 1957 and 1965. He also made 65 appearances for Rhodesia, captaining them 34 times.<ref>Jonty Winch, ''Cricket's Rich Heritage: a History of Rhodesian and Zimbabwean Cricket 1890–1982'', Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, 1983, p. 220.</ref>  

Pithey was a technically correct top-order batsmen who developed a reputation for being a stayer rather than a stroke-maker.<ref name=WObit>''[Wisden](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)'' 2007, pp. 1566–67.</ref> His early promise saw him represent South Africa as a young player, but he only secured his place in the team toward the end of his career. He toured Australia with [Trevor Goddard](/source/Trevor_Goddard_(cricketer))'s Springboks in 1963–64, during which, with his brother [David](/source/David_Pithey) and the Pollocks ([Peter](/source/Peter_Pollock) and [Graeme](/source/Graeme_Pollock)) he formed part of the first pair of brothers to represent a country in a Test match.

His best series was against [Mike Smith](/source/M._J._K._Smith)'s [MCC](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) tourists in 1964/65 during which he scored two half-centuries, and his only century, 154 at [Newlands](/source/Newlands_Cricket_Ground) during the third Test match.<ref name=WObit/> He was selected for the tour of England in 1965 but withdrew for business reasons and did not play Test cricket again.<ref name=WObit/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cricinfo|id=46760}}

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Category:Cricketers from Mutare
Category:Alumni of Plumtree School
Category:University of Cape Town alumni
Category:Zimbabwean people of British descent
Category:White Rhodesian people
Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer in South Africa
Category:South Africa Test cricketers
Category:South African cricketers
Category:Rhodesia cricketers
Category:Western Province cricketers
Category:South African Universities cricketers

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