Cricket
Popplewell was a right-handed wicket-keeper-batsman, playing 56 innings in 41 matches, scoring 881 runs for an average of 20.46 including two half-centuries. He played for Cambridge University from 1949 until 1951 at the time when Rev DS Sheppard was playing for the University, for MCC in 1953, and for the Free Foresters from 1952 until 1960. His only bowling stint was three balls for MCC against Cambridge University in 1953. He was president of the MCC from 1994 to 1996.
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