Arthur Brodhurst

{{short description|English cricketer and schoolteacher (1916–2006)}}

{{distinguish|Arthur Broadhurst}}

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| full_name = Arthur Hugh Brodhurst

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| birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina

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| death_place = Winchester, England

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Arthur Hugh ("Podge") Brodhurst ({{year|21 July 1916}} – {{year|24 June 2006}}) was an English cricketer and schoolteacher.

Brodhurst was educated at Malvern College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Gloucestershire from 1937 to 1946, re-appearing in a single first-class game for MCC in Canada in 1951. During the Second World War he was in the Royal Artillery commanding anti-aircraft units in the North African desert; later he was liaison officer with the Czech Armoured Brigade and ended the war as town major of Haarlem, where he re-introduced cricket to Holland. He taught at Winchester College from 1946 to 1978, including three periods in charge of cricket, and was a housemaster from 1954 to 1970.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1523341/Podge-Brodhurst.html |title='Podge' Brodhurst (obituary) |newspaper=The Telegraoh |date=8 July 2006}} His nickname there was Ahab in recognition of his initials and his obsessive behaviour.

Brodhurst married Meg, daughter of the cricket historian Harry Altham who was also a housemaster at Winchester College. They had three children.