Background
He was born at Weymouth, Dorset.
He was born at Weymouth, Dorset.
Sutton was educated at Ampleforth College and at Worcester College, Oxford.
CricketArchive lists him as "Tony Sutton". As a cricketer he was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm off-spin bowler. In the 1946 season, he was the most economical of Oxford"s regular bowlers, with 31 wickets at an average of 22.93 runs each.
The best bowling figures of his career came in the match against Leicestershire when he took five second innings wickets for 63 runs, his only five-wicket return.
He took three wickets in the 1946 University match against Cambridge. Sutton played for the Oxford University side again in 10 matches in 1947 but his bowling was less effective and the English-born Canadian off-spin bowler Basil Robinson was preferred in the team for the 1947 University match.
In 1948 he played his one first-class match for Somerset and in 1954 he played once in the Minor Counties for Devon as well as in two other minor matches.