Dennis Constable (14 August 1925 – November 2011) is a former English

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er. Constable was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a

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. He was born at

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. The younger brother of

cricketer

Bernie Constable Bernard Constable (19 February 1921 – 14 May 1997) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Surrey from 1939 to 1964. He was a member of the Surrey team that won seven successive County Championships from 1952 to 1958. Career Cons ...

, Dennis made two first-class appearances for

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in 1949 against

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and the touring New Zealanders, both at the

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. In the match against Leicestershire he scored 8 runs in Northamptonshire's first-innings, before being dismissed by

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, while in their second-innings he wasn't required to bat. In Leicestershire's first-innings he took two

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and in their second he followed up with another catch and a

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. Against the New Zealanders, Constable batted at number eleven in Northamptonshire's first-innings, being dismissed for 12 by

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thanks to a stumping off his bowling by

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. In their second-innings he wasn't required to bat. He took a single catch in the New Zealanders first-innings and followed that up with another in their second.

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