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Wakefield, Yorkshire born right-handed batsman David Denton showed promise as a teenager, scoring a half century in a Yorkshire Colts game in 1892. After three friendly (but nevertheless first class) matches for Yorkshire in 1894, he made his County Championship debut in Yorkshire’s final game of the season against Somerset, though he did not bat, bowl or take a catch. The following year, he scored useful runs against Cambridge University, carrying his bat for 77 not out, and also Lancashire, to establish his place in the side. That year he made a thousand runs for the first time, only once thereafter (in 1898) failing to reach that landmark.
In 1905, Denton had a fantastic year, scoring 2,405 runs, earning himself Wisden Cricketer of the Year recognition in the 1906 Almanack. Injury to Archie MacLaren resulted in Denton’s elevation to the Test team in July 1905, to play against Australia at Headingley, Leeds, but he failed to make the most of his opportunity and was dismissed for 0 and 12, being dropped from the team immediately thereafter. He was recalled for the tour to South Africa that winter, and played in all five Tests. He made just one fifty in ten innings, and was again dropped from the side, but nevertheless played five more matches for England on a second and final tour of South Africa, in 1909-10. In the third Test at Johannesburg he made 104 at about a run a minute, but in no other innings did he even pass 30, and his England career came to a permanent end after 11 Tests with a batting average of 20.19.
Denton continued to play with considerable success for Yorkshire until after the First World War, making his highest score of 221 against Kent in 1912, and scoring 209 not out at Worcester as late as June 1920, just a month short of his 46th birthday. He retired at the end of that year, and though afflicted by ill-health for a time, recovered enough to stand as a first class umpire regularly from 1925 to 1930, and in occasional matches until 1937.
His older brother, Joe Denton, also had a brief first class career with Yorkshire in 1887 and 1888.
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