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{{short description|English cricketer and Indian Army officer}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| international =
| fullname = Ernest Wyndham Burdett
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|9|5|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Roorkee]], [[North-Western Provinces]], <br>[[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|9|13|1887|9|5|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Monks Risborough]], [[Buckinghamshire]], [[England]]
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role = [[Wicket-keeper]]
| family =
| club1 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| year1 = 1932/33
| clubnumber1 =
| club2 = [[Railways cricket team|Nizam's State Railway A]]
| year2 = 1931/32
| clubnumber2 =
| club3 = [[Devon County Cricket Club|Devon]]
| year3 = 1911
| clubnumber3 =
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 49
| bat avg1 = 12.25
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 37
| deliveries1 = –
| wickets1 = –
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 2/2
| date = 20 March
| year = 2011
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/27083.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Ernest Wyndham Burdett''' [[Military Cross|MC]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (5 September 1887 – 13 September 1962) was an English [[cricket]]er and [[Indian Army]] officer born in [[Roorkee]], then in the [[British Raj]]. Burdett was a [[wicket-keeper]].

Burdett was the son of Reverend William Jerome Burdett and Eliza Katharine Toye.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mosley|first=Charles|title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage|edition=107|volume=3rd volume|year=2003|publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd|page=586}}</ref> He was educated at [[King's School, Bruton]]. Burdett was commissioned into the Indian Army on 17 August 1907, and his second annual officer's report places him in Allahabad in 1908, attached to 48 Pioneers.<ref>British Library L/Mil/14/11926</ref> Listed in the [[London Gazette]], dated 11 February 1910, as serving in the [[Indian Army]] and as being promoted from [[second lieutenant]] to [[lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28338 |date=11 February 1910 |page=1046 }}</ref> He served in the [[48th Pioneers]]. The following year it can be assumed that Burdett returned to [[England]] prior to July 1911, as he played five [[Minor Counties Championship]] matches for [[Devon County Cricket Club|Devon]] in that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13089/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Ernest Burdett|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref> Burdett served in the Indian Army during the [[First World War]] and was listed in the 6 April 1917 edition of the London Gazette, still serving in the 48th Pioneers and having been promoted to the rank of [[Captain (land)|captain]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30011 |date=6 April 1917 |page=3340 }}</ref> From 1 October 1914 to 15 April 1916 he served in Mesopotamia; he is recorded as being a prisoner of war in Turkey from 15 April 1916. He eventually reached the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]] and officer commanding 3/20 Burma Rifles. During the course of the war he was decorated with the [[Military Cross]] and later the [[Distinguished Service Order]].<ref name = "PER">{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p18847.htm|title=thepeerage.com page on the Burdett family|publisher=www.thepeerage.com|accessdate=20 March 2011}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=February 2013}}</ref>

Fourteen years later he made his [[first-class cricket|first-class]] debut for [[Railways cricket team|Railways A]] against [[Freelooters cricket team|Freelooters]]. He was dismissed for a [[Duck (cricket)|duck]] in the Railways first-innings by [[Ladha Ramji]]. In their second-innings he scored 12 runs, before being dismissed by [[Amar Singh (cricketer)|Amar Singh]]. Burdett made a single [[stumping]] in the match, stumping [[Ahmed Baporia]] from the bowling of [[P. Ramsey-Brown]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/14/14107.html|title=Freelooters v Railways A, 1931|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref> The following year he played his second and final first-class match, this time for [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]] against [[Karachi cricket team|Karachi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13089/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Ernest Burdett|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref> In the Hyderabad first-innings, Burdett scored 37 runs before being dismissed by [[D.O. Daulatram]]. In the Karachi first-innings he stumped opening batsman [[Abdul Aziz (cricketer, born 1905)|Abdul Aziz]] and [[Catch (cricket)|caught behind]] [[Abbas Khan (cricketer)|Abbas Khan]] and [[Hyder Ali (Hyderabad cricketer)|Hyder Ali]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/14/14502.html|title=Hyderabad v Karachi, 1932|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref> Burdett scored 49 runs in his two first-class matches, ending with a [[batting average (cricket)|batting average]] of 12.25.

Burdett married Hebe Etheldreda Ellen Curwen Collis on 17 November 1919.<ref name = "PER"/> They had two children: Elizabeth Sylvia Burdett (1921–1984) and Arlingham Jerome D'Arcy Burdett (1922–1995).<ref name = "PER"/> Burdett spent his later life in England, where on 13 September 1962 he died in [[Monks Risborough]], [[Buckinghamshire]].

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
*[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/27083.html Ernest Burdett] at [[ESPNcricinfo]]
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13089/13089.html Ernest Burdett] at CricketArchive

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[[Category:People from Haridwar district]]
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[[Category:English cricketers]]
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[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Military Cross]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:Wicket-keepers]]
[[Category:British people in colonial India]]

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