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Monday, 11 March, 2002, 13:28 GMT
Former Hants captain dies
Dick Moore, who played nine seasons for Hampshire
Dick Moore, who played nine seasons for Hampshire
Former Hampshire captain Dick Moore, who created a club record by scoring 316 in a single day against Warwickshire in 1937, has died aged 88 at his home in Colwyn Bay.

Born in Charminster, near Bournemouth, Moore was Hampshire captain for two years from 1936 and scored 6,026 runs for the county.

He died on 5 March.

Moore was an all-rounder, representing his county on 137 occasion, and hitting 10 centuries and 19 fifties. He also took 116 catches in a career stretching between 1931 and 1939.

He had a batting average of 26.08 and a bowling average of 39.12, after taking 25 wickets with his medium-paced seamers.

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