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{{Short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Arthur Dolphin
| image =
| caption =
| country = England
| full_name = Arthur Dolphin
| birth_date = {{birth date|1885|12|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Wilsden]], [[Bingley]], Yorkshire, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1942|10|23|1885|12|24|df=y}}
| death_place = Lilycroft, Heaton, [[Bradford]], Yorkshire, England
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| international = true
| onetest = true
| testdebutdate = 11 February
| testdebutyear = 1921
| testdebutfor = England
| testdebutagainst = Australia
| testcap = 188

| year1 = 1905–1927
| club1 = [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]]
| umpire = true
| testsumpired = 6
| umptestdebutyr = 1933
| umptestlastyr = 1938
| fcumpired = 249
| umpfcdebutyr = 1926
| umpfclastyr = 1939

| columns = 2
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 1
| bat avg1 = 0.50
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 1
| deliveries1 = –
| wickets1 = –
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1= 1/0
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2 = 449
| runs2 = 3,402
| bat avg2 = 11.30
| 100s/50s2 = 0/7
| top score2 = 66
| deliveries2 = 66
| wickets2 = 1
| bowl avg2 = 28.00
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 1/18
| catches/stumpings2= 610/272
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/389/389.html CricketArchive
| date = 16 June
| year = 2013
}}

'''Arthur Dolphin''' (24 December 1885 – 23 October 1942) was an English [[first-class cricket]]er, who [[wicket-keeper|kept wicket]] for [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club]] between [[1905 English cricket season|1905]] and [[1927 English cricket season|1927]].<ref name="YB">{{cite book |title=The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook |last=Warner |first=David |year=2011 |edition=113th |publisher=Great Northern Books |location=Ilkley, Yorkshire |isbn=978-1-905080-85-4 |page=367 }}</ref> He is part of a tradition of Yorkshire [[wicket-keeper]]s, stretching from [[Ned Stephenson]], [[George Pinder (cricketer)|George Pinder]], [[Joe Hunter (cricketer)|Joe Hunter]] and [[David Hunter (English cricketer)|David Hunter]] before him, to [[Arthur Wood (cricketer, born 1898)|Arthur Wood]], [[Jimmy Binks]], [[David Bairstow]] plus [[Richard Blakey]] to the present day. The successor to David Hunter as Yorkshire's wicket-keeper he served the county for twenty two years.

He also played [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC).

==Career==
Dolphin was born in [[Wilsden]], [[Bingley]], Yorkshire, England, and became the first [[Bradford League]] player chosen to represent Yorkshire. Dolphin was 14 years old when he first played for [[Wilsden]] Britannia, and 19 when he made his county debut in 1905. After playing for the Yorkshire Second XI, he took over as Yorkshire's first choice wicket keeper in 1910, and retained his position for seventeen years.<ref name="YB"/>

He served in [[World War I]] alongside his county colleagues, [[Roy Kilner]] and [[Major Booth]], with the [[Leeds Pals]] but returned to Yorkshire's ranks in 1919, and enjoyed his most successful season with the gloves claiming 82 dismissals in the first post-war summer. Dolphin could defend with the bat when needed, as exemplified by his vigil against [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]] at Leyton in 1919. He scored 62 not out, and with [[Ernest Smith (cricketer, born 1888)|E. Smith]] put on 103 for the last wicket, so saving their side from following-on when Yorkshire were in danger of doing so. He had previous form against Essex in 1914, going into bat as the [[Nightwatchman (cricket)|nightwatchman]], he added 124 for the second wicket with [[Benjamin B. Wilson|Benjamin Wilson]]. His one [[Test cricket|Test match]] came in 1920–21 in the Fourth Test against [[Australian cricket team|Australia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149787.html |title=A gentle giant |work=ESPNcricinfo |date=24 December 2006 |access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref>

He was remarkably consistent once he had won his first team place, but when he was injured it came about in unusual circumstances. Playing against [[Middlesex]] at [[Lord's]], he fell off a chair in the dressing-room as he reached for his clothes and broke his wrist, missing the remainder of the summer of 1921. His benefit match in 1922 against [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]] at [[Headingley Cricket Ground|Headingley]], [[Leeds]] raised £1,891 and he hit the winning runs, after scoring 20 of the 24 required to win, to secure victory by ten wickets. He suffered from [[sciatica]] in the latter part of his career, and he played his last match for Yorkshire in 1927.<ref name="YB"/>

[[Herbert Sutcliffe]] observed Dolphin and wrote: "His quick brain and exceptionally keen eyesight were responsible for disposing of large numbers of batsmen from chances which many keepers would have missed without even affecting their reputations". Nearly a third of Dolphin's dismissals were [[stumping]]s.<ref name="YB"/>

After retiring as a player, Dolphin became an [[umpire (cricket)|umpire]] for a decade and officiated in six Tests.

Dolphin died in Lilycroft, Heaton, [[Bradford]], Yorkshire, at the age of 56 in October 1942.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=11919}}
*[http://www.leedspals.co.uk/dolphin.htm Sportsmen Soldiers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211851/http://www.leedspals.co.uk/dolphin.htm |date=3 March 2016 }}

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