Dennis Gamsy (born 17 February 1940 in
Glenwood,
Natal
NATAL or Natal may refer to:
Places
* Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, a city in Brazil
* Natal, South Africa (disambiguation), a region in South Africa
** Natalia Republic, a former country (1839–1843)
** Colony of Natal, a former British colony ( ...
) is a former South African
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
er who played in two
Tests as a wicketkeeper in 1970 against Australia.
He played for Natal from 1958–59 to 1972–73, and toured England with the
South African team in 1965. In 1970 he became one of the first prominent South African cricketers to speak out in favour of mixed-race sport in South Africa. Shortly afterwards he founded the Cricket Club of South Africa, one of the country's first multi-racial teams.
[Gemmell, p. 96.]
See also
*
List of select Jewish cricketers
References
External links
Dennis Gamsy at Cricket Archive
1940 births
Living people
Jewish South African sportspeople
South Africa Test cricketers
South African cricketers
KwaZulu-Natal cricketers
South African Universities cricketers
International Cavaliers cricketers
Jewish cricketers
Wicket-keepers
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