David Deshon
David Peter Tower Deshon was a successful school cricketer whose later progress in first-class cricket was limited by his career as a full-time officer in the Royal Artillery. He was born at Marylebone, London and died suddenly of a heart attack at Heathrow Airport.
Cricket career
Deshon was a successful schoolboy cricketer at Sherborne School and was selected for the annual Marylebone Cricket Club schools cricket festival in 1941, where he scored a century and outshone Trevor Bailey in a big partnership. He was a middle-order right-handed batsman.As an officer in the regular army, his first-class cricket was very restricted. He made four appearances for Somerset, three of them in 1947 and a final one in 1953. His final match was Bertie Buse's infamous benefit match at Bath against Lancashire in 1953, when the entire match was completed in a single day; Deshon's contributions to the debacle were innings of 0 and 9. In all, he scored 82 first-class runs at an average of 11.71, with a highest score of 21. He appeared in non-first-class inter-services cricket, as well as playing for the Royal Artillery.