Aubrey Dennis (born 27 May 1929) is a former

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er who played

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for North-Eastern Transvaal from 1950 to 1955. A solid left-handed batsman who usually batted at number three, Dennis hit the first of his two first-class centuries in North-Eastern Transvaal's match against the touring New Zealanders in 1953–54. North-Eastern Transvaal trailed by 166 runs, but Dennis, concentrating determinedly and limiting his strokeplay, scored 100

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in 310 minutes, enabling his captain to declare and set the New Zealanders a final-innings target. In his final match, against

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in the last match of the 1954–55 season, he scored 138, the only century of the match, which North-Eastern Transvaal won. In 1957–58 he played for

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in a two-day match against the touring

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