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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Rudolph David Anstead
| birth_date = 2 June 1876
| birth_place = [[Wisbech]], [[Cambridgeshire]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1962|1|6|1876|6|2}}
| death_place = [[Bishop's Stortford]], [[Hertfordshire]], England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family = [[Walter Anstead]] (father)
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club|Cambridgeshire]]
| year1 = 1897–1899
| club2 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year2 = 1921/22
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 4
| bat avg1 = 2.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 4
| deliveries1 = 30
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 18 July
| year = 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/26412.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Rudolph David Anstead''' (2 June 1876 – 6 January 1962) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er.

The son of the cricketer [[Walter Anstead]], he was born in June 1876 at [[Wisbech]]. He was educated at [[Giggleswick School]], before going up to [[Christ's College, Cambridge]].<ref name="VENN">{{cite book |title=Alumni Cantabrigienses |first=John |last=Venn |date=2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=61 |isbn=978-1108036146 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuU54j4aT6QC |language=en}}</ref> He played [[Minor Counties of English and Welsh cricket|minor counties cricket]] for [[Norfolk County Cricket Club|Norfolk]] from 1897–99, making eleven appearances in the [[Minor Counties Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12628/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Rudolph Anstead |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-18 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> After studying natural sciences at Cambridge, he graduated in 1899. He worked as an analyst at a chemical plant at [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]] in 1899–1900, before working as a researcher in a government laboratory at [[Bridgetown|Bridgetown, Barbados]] from 1900–05, which included working for the Imperial Department of Agriculture in the [[British West Indies]].<ref name="VENN"/> From 1905–09, was the agricultural superintendent for the Botanical Gardens, Grenada. From 1909, he relocated to [[British India]], where he worked as a scientific officer for the United Planters Association of Southern India until 1920. He served as the deputy director of planting districts in [[Coimbatore]] in 1920, before serving as the director of agriculture at the Madras Agricultural Department from 1922–33.<ref name="VENN"/>

While in British India, he made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Indians cricket team|Indians]] in 1921–22 [[Madras Presidency Matches|Madras Presidency]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12628/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Rudolph Anstead |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-18 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 4 runs in the Europeans first-innings by [[Lakshmanan Rao]], while in their second-innings he was dismissed [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] by [[T. Vasu Nayudu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10349.html |title=Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1921/22 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-18 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was a [[fellow]] at the [[University of Madras]] and was made a [[Order of the Indian Empire|Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] in the [[1927 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |city=Edinburgh |issue=14301|date=4 January 1927|page=5}}</ref> He retired in 1931 and returned to England,<ref name="VENN"/> where he died at [[Bishop's Stortford]] in January 1962.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=26412}}

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[[Category:1876 births]]
[[Category:1962 deaths]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Wisbech]]
[[Category:People educated at Giggleswick School]]
[[Category:Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Cambridgeshire cricketers]]
[[Category:20th-century English botanists]]
[[Category:English horticulturists]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]

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