Dalton Parry "Conky" Conyngham (10 May 1897 – 7 July 1979) was a South African

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er who played in one Test match in the 1922–23 season. He played

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in South Africa from 1921–22 to 1930–31.

Early life

Conyngham was born in

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, where he attended

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. He sailed to England and joined the

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, but was still in training when the war ended.

Cricket career

A right-arm medium-pace bowler, Conyngham took 40 wickets in six matches for the successful

side in 1921–22, including his best figures of 5 for 20 against

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. However, he then played only spasmodically over the next few seasons, dropping out of the side after 1924–25. He played a few matches from 1926 for

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, one of them in

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where he made his highest first-class score, and had two further games for

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in 1930–31. In his one Test in the final match of the 1922–23 series against the England team under Frank Mann, Conyngham scored an unbeaten 3 in each innings and took one wicket in each England innings. Conyngham also played for South Africa in two of the matches against S. B. Joel's XI in 1924–25 but without success. In the two matches Natal played against S. B. Joel's XI earlier in the tour he had taken five wickets in an innings three times, with match figures of 10 for 150 in the second match.

Later life and death

Conyngham worked as a

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. He married Constance Jennings in

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in August 1930. He died in Durban in July 1979, aged 82.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Conyngham, Dalton 1897 births 1979 deaths South African cricketers South Africa Test cricketers KwaZulu-Natal cricketers Gauteng cricketers Western Province cricketers South African people of British descent Royal Flying Corps personnel Cricketers from Durban