Norman Stevenson
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Norman Lang Stevenson (25 November 1875 – 21 August 1967) was a Scottish all-round amateur sportsman. In international terms his greatest sporting achievement was winning a bronze medal for hockey at the 1908 Summer Olympics as a member of the Scotland hockey team.[1] However it was for cricket that he was best known, as a veteran cricket captain for a leading Scottish cricket club. Between 1902 and 1948 he was Captain of Edinburgh’s Carlton Cricket Club for a total of 29 seasons, retiring at the age of 73.[2] At every stage of his long captaincy there were years when Carlton won over 80% of their matches.[3] He was “one of the great characters of Scottish cricket” according to The Encyclopedia of Scottish Cricket.[4] Carlton members dubbed him the ‘W.G. Grace’ of Scottish cricket in comparison with England’s famously long playing cricketer.[5] Stevenson also wrote a substantial book about the Scottish cricket of his era which has remained in use as a reference book into the 21st century.[6][7]
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