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| Full name | Alan Kenneth Armitage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 January 1930 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Occasional wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1951 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1950–1951 | Nottinghamshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,13 November 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alan Kenneth Armitage (born 25 January 1930) is an English former first-class cricketer. Armitage was a right-handed batsman who occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Nottingham,Nottinghamshire.
Armitage made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire against Warwickshire in the 1950 County Championship. He played a further match that season against Hampshire. In 1951,he made a single first-class appearance for his home county against Oxford University,where incidentally he himself was also studying. In that same season he made two first-class appearances for the university,against the Free Foresters and Leicestershire. In the match against the Free Foresters he scored his only first-class century,making 155 runs in the university's first-innings,while in their second-innings he followed this up with an unbeaten 57. [1] Two appearances in July in the 1951 County Championship against Somerset and Yorkshire were to be his final first-class appearances. [2] Playing against Yorkshire,he was part of a Fred Trueman hat-trick,with the then future England Test cricketer taking the wickets of Reg Simpson,Armitage and Peter Harvey. [3] Overall,Armitage scored 348 runs in first-class cricket,which came at an average of 34.80.