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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Cecil Pullan<br />
| image = <br />
| caption =<br />
| nickname = Plug<br />
| batting = Right-handed<br />
| bowling = Right-arm medium-fast<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 33 <br />
| runs1 = 1,049<br />
| bat avg1 = 21.40<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 0/8<br />
| top score1 = 84<br />
| deliveries1 = 643<br />
| wickets1 = 8<br />
| bowl avg1 = 44.62<br />
| fivefor1 = 0<br />
| tenfor1 = 0<br />
| best bowling1 = 2-26<br />
| catches/stumpings1= 20/0<br />
| international = true<br />
| country = English<br />
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| testdebutdate = 4 May<br />
| testdebutyear = 1932<br />
| lasttestdate = 30 August<br />
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| lasttestyear = 1938<br />
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'''Cecil Douglas Ayrton "Plug" Pullan''' (26 July 1910 – 24 June 1970) was an Indian-born English [[first-class cricket]]er who played for [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] and [[Worcestershire County Cricket Club|Worcestershire]] in the 1930s.<ref name="Obituary">"Obituary, 1970", ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1971, p. 1029.</ref> He was born in [[Mahoba]].<br />
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Pullan attended [[Malvern College]], where he excelled at cricket: in 1928 he came top of the school's [[batting average (cricket)|batting average]]s.<ref name="Obituary"/> In 1932 and 1933 he played eight times for Oxford University, taking two wickets: those of [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]]'s [[Arthur Mitchell (cricketer)|Arthur Mitchell]] and [[Free Foresters Cricket Club|Free Foresters]]' [[Noel Evans (cricketer)|Noel Evans]]. With the bat he made 74 against the [[India cricket team|Indians]] and 68 against [[Worcestershire County Cricket Club|Worcestershire]]. However, he did not win a [[Oxford Blue|blue]] as he never played [[The University Match (cricket)|against Cambridge University]]. Pullan also made one appearance for [[H. D. G. Leveson-Gower]]'s XI ''against'' Oxford.<br />
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In 1935, Pullan became a Worcestershire player, making 12 [[County Championship]] appearances for them that season. His 289 runs came [[batting average (cricket)|at 16.05]], and included two half-centuries, while his two wickets [[bowling average|cost]] 46 runs apiece. He played not at all for the next two years, but returned in 1938 to make another 13 appearances. This time he was more successful with the bat, hitting 479 runs at 25.21, with an August match against [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]] a personal highlight. Captaining the county in the absence of [[Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham|Charles Lyttleton]], he made a career-best 84 in the first innings and followed this up with 55 in the second. Even so, Worcestershire lost by two wickets.<br />
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Also in 1938, against [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]], he took 2-26, the only instance of his taking more than one wicket in an innings (or indeed a match). However, his only other victim &mdash; the last of his first-class career &mdash; was [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]] [[wicket-keeper]] [[Arthur Wheat (cricketer)|Arthur Wheat]]. That was in Pullan's penultimate game: his last was against [[Northamptonshire County Cricket Club|Northamptonshire]], and he bowed out on a high note by scoring 24 [[not out]] in an unbeaten ninth-wicket partnership of 36 with [[Reg Perks]] to clinch a narrow victory. That was the end of Pullan at this level, although he did play for the Worcestershire Second XI in the [[Minor Counties Championship]] as late as 1950.<br />
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Pullan was an administrator in the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] (now [[Ghana]]) in the early 1950s.<ref>"Where are they now?", ''[[The Cricketer]]'', Winter Annual 1952, p. 510.</ref> He died at the age of 59 at [[Tongaat|Tongaat Beach]], [[Natal Province|Natal]], [[South Africa]].<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{cricinfo|ref=england/content/player/19083.html}}<br />
* [http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/32/32203/32203.html Cecil Pullan] at CricketArchive<br />
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