Michael Ormonde Cleasby Sturt (born 12 September 1941) is an English businessman and

cricketer 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 striki ...

. Mike Sturt was born in Wembley, Middlesex. He played county cricket for

Middlesex County Cricket Club Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Middlesex which has effectively been subsumed within the ceremonial ...

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. 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.

Stephen Chalke Stephen Chalke (born 5 June 1948) is an English author and publisher, particularly of books on cricket and cricketers. Chalke was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He has two undergraduate degrees – one in Drama, English and Philosophy, the othe ...

, ''The Way It Was: Glimpses of English Cricket's Past'', Fairfield Books, Bath, 2010, pp. 96–97. Sturt combined a successful business career in the

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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".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sturt, Michael 1941 births Living people English cricketers Middlesex cricketers Chairmen of Middlesex County Cricket Club Cricketers from Greater London Sportspeople from Wembley Wicket-keepers Businesspeople from London