George Pullinger

George Richard Pullinger (14 March 1920 – 4 August 1982) was an English cricketer. Pullinger was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and tail-end right-handed batsman. He was born in Islington, London.

An amateur, Pullinger made his first-class debut for Essex against Middlesex in the 1949 County Championship as cover for Ken Preston.¹ Available for only the first half of the 1949 season, he made fifteen further appearances. He played twice more in the 1950 season, then disappeared from first-class cricket.² He often opened the bowling with Trevor Bailey. In his eighteen first-class matches he took 41 wickets at an average of 37.97, with best figures of 5/54.³ These figures, which were his only first-class five wicket haul, came against Somerset in 1949.⁴ A true tailender, with the bat he scored 53 runs at a batting average of 5.88, with a high score of 14 not out.⁵

Pullinger died at Thurrock, Essex, on 4 August 1982. His obituary appeared in the 1986 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.⁶