Dalton Parry 'Conky' Conyngham (born 10 May 1897 in Durban

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, Natal, died 7 July 1979 in Durban, Natal) was a South Africa

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n cricket

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er who played in one Test match

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 in 1923.

A right-arm medium-pace bowler, Conyngham took 40 wickets in six matches for the successful Natal side in 1921-22, but then played only spasmodically over the next few seasons, dropping out of the side after 1924-25. He played a few matches from 1926 for Transvaal

Transvaal cricket team

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, one of them in Rhodesia

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 where he made his highest first-class

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 score, and had two further games for Western Province in 1930-31.

In his one Test in the final match of 1922-23 series against the England

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 team under Frank Mann, he scored an unbeaten 3 in each innings and took one wicket in each England innings.