Editing Ted Dexter (section)

==Rising star 1960–61==
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''Few hundreds have filled such a yawning gap...Dexter so dominated a stand with [[Ken Barrington|Barrington]] that more than two-thirds of the 161 runs came from his masterful bat before he was stumped trying to lift [[Bob Simpson (cricketer)|Simpson's]] leg-break on to some distant fairway.''
:[[Ray Robinson (cricket writer)|Ray Robinson]] and [[Mike Coward]]<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12502067 |title=Barclays world of cricket : the game from A-Z |date=1986 |publisher=Willow Books in association with Barclays Bank |isbn=0-00-218193-2 |edition=Revised |location=London |oclc=12502067 |access-date=26 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826072421/https://www.worldcat.org/title/barclays-world-of-cricket-the-game-from-a-z/oclc/12502067 |archive-date=26 August 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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On his return Dexter was made captain of [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]], which he held until he retired in 1965. He had a quiet home Test season against [[South African cricket team in England in 1960|South Africa]], but in the First Test at [[Edgbaston Cricket Ground|Edgbaston]] in the [[1961 Ashes series]] England started their second innings needing 321 runs to avoid an innings defeat. Dexter made 180, the biggest century for England against Australia since [[Second World War|the war]] and studded with 31 cracking boundaries, but typically he was [[stumped]] in the last minutes of the match trying to hit [[Bob Simpson (cricketer)|Bobby Simpson]] for six so he could make a double century. In the famous Fourth Test at [[Old Trafford Cricket Ground|Old Trafford]] he played a spectacular innings of 76 in 84 minutes to take England to 106 runs from victory with 9 wickets in hand and [[the Ashes]] in sight, but his dismissal set off an England collapse and the series was lost.