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Denis Warburton Begbie (12 December 1914 – 10 March 2009) was a South African
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er who played in five
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between 1948 and 1950. He played
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for
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between the 1933–34 and 1949–50 seasons.


Career

Begbie was a right-handed batsman and right-arm leg-spin bowler who could also bowl off-spin. He was selected for the South African tour of England in 1947, but did not play in any of the Test matches. He made his Test debut against England in December 1948 at the age of 34, playing the first three Tests of the five-match series. In the first Test he scored 37 and 48, falling both times to
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, as England won by 2 wickets. In the second Test he was out for 5 as the match was drawn. In the third Test, he was run out for 18 as the match was again drawn. Begbie did not play the final two games of the series, which was won 2–0 by England. He next played for South Africa in the fourth Test of the 1949–50 series against Australia. He was out for 24 to
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as the match was drawn. In the final Test of the series, he was out for 1 to
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in the first innings and then to Bill Johnston for 5 in the second and took his only Test wicket, bowling
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for 116. Australia crushed South Africa by an innings and 259 runs to seal a 4–0 series victory. This was Begbie's final Test match. At the time of his death in March 2009, aged 94, Begbie was the third oldest Test cricketer still living, behind New Zealand's
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and fellow South African Norman Gordon.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Begbie, Denis 1914 births 2009 deaths People from Middelburg, Mpumalanga South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers Gauteng cricketers