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Bernard Gerard Wensley Atkinson (11 September 1900 – 4 September 1966) was an English
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er. Atkinson was a right-handed
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who bowled right-arm
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. He was born at
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. Educated at
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, Atkinson played for the school cricket team from 1916 to 1919, heading the batting averages in his last two years there. He later attended the
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, but did not represent the university in
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. He would make his debut in first-class cricket for
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against
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in the 1922 County Championship. He made ten first-class appearances for the county in that season, scoring 257 runs at an
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of 17.13, with a high score of 91, his only
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score of the season. As an
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, he also took 5 wickets with the ball, which came at an
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of 31.80, with best figures of 2/13. Outside of cricket, he was an educator, which may account for his making no appearances for Northamptonshire in first-class cricket in 1923 and 1924. He did however make three first-class appearances for the county in the 1925 County Championship, scoring 29 runs at an average of 5.80, while with the ball he took 2 wickets. A gap of several years followed before his next appearance in first-class cricket, this time for
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for whom he made his debut against
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in the
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. He played for the county in the 1933 and 1934 seasons, making a total of nine appearances, scoring 286 runs at an average of 14.30, with a high score of 91. With the ball, he took 18 wickets at an average of 36.00, with best figures of 4/97. He left the county at the end of the 1934 season to undertake a teaching position at the
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, while teaching there he played club cricket for
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, also making several minor appearances for
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. He died at a hospital in
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, London on 4 September 1966. His brother, Nigel Atkinson, also played first-class cricket.


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