Verdon Joseph Thomas Chettleburgh (19 November 1912 – 4 September 1960) was a New Zealand

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er. He played nineteen first-class matches for

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between 1932 and 1941. Tom Chettleburgh attended Otago Boys' High School in

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and worked as a bookkeeper.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 33. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. He made his highest first-class score in Otago's victory over

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in the 1936-37 Plunket Shield, when he scored 39 (the top score in Otago's first innings) and 84. He was later a member of the board of the

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. He died in 1960 at

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; an obituary was published in the ''New Zealand Cricket Almanack''.

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