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Full name | Alan Terry Castell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England | 6 August 1943|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Leg break googly Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1961–1971 | Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,28 September 2009 |
Alan Terry Castell (born 6 August 1943) is an English former cricketer who played for Hampshire between 1961 and 1971 at both first-class and List A level. He began his career as a leg-break and googly bowler,but later switched to medium-pace. In 112 first-class appearances,he took nearly 230 wickets.
Castell was born at Oxford in August 1943. He first came to the attention of Hampshire coach Arthur Holt as a leg break googly bowler while playing for an Oxford juniors team in 1959, [1] who invited Castell to join the Hampshire staff without a trial. [2] [3] Early in his career at Hampshire,he built a good relationship with Hampshire secretary Desmond Eagar,who once chastised him for the casual manner in which he addressed Hampshire president Harry Altham. [2]
He made his debut for the Hampshire first eleven in a first-class match against Oxford University at Portsmouth in 1961. [4] He appeared in the same fixture the following season,before making three appearances in the County Championship. [4] Notably,against Surrey he shared in a partnership of 230 for the ninth wicket with Danny Livingstone,which as of 2024 remains a Hampshire record for that wicket; [5] Castell contributed 76 runs to the partnership,which would become his highest first-class score. [6] In the 1963 season,he made nine first-class appearances, [4] taking 28 wickets at an average of 18.85;he took three five wicket hauls in these matches,with best figures of 5 for 46. [7] His performances in 1963 led some critics to suggest Castell could be a Test hopeful. [8] In the winter which followed the 1963 season,Castell toured the West Indies with the International Cavaliers,playing in two first-class matches against Jamaica at Kingston. [4]
He played infrequently for Hampshire in 1964 and 1965,failing to live up to the early promise his leg break bowling had shown;the Australian Bill Alley had suggested that Castell was more promising than Richie Benaud was at the same age. [3] He reinvented himself as a right-arm medium pace bowling ahead of the 1966 season,in which he made eleven first-class appearances, [4] taking 36 wickets at an average of 22.55,which included two five wicket hauls and what were,at that point,his career best bowling figures of 6 for 49. [7] In that same season,he also made his debut in List A one-day cricket against Worcestershire in the semi-final of the Gillette Cup. [9] Over the following two seasons,he was largely ineffective,taking 12 and 19 wickets respectively in 1967 and 1968,at expensive averages. [7] He made 22 first-class appearances in 1969, [4] having his most successful season in terms of wickets,with 50 at an average of 25.90;amongst his three five wickets hauls that season were his career best figures of 6 for 22, [7] taken against Somerset. [10]
Castell again featured in 21 first-class matches in 1970, [4] taking 43 wickets at an average of 39.86. [7] Having played one-day intermittently since his 1966 debut in that format,he featured more prominently for Hampshire in one-day cricket during 1970,taking 12 wickets at an average of 38.16 from fourteen matches. [9] [11] In 1971,he featured in a further thirteen first-class matches, [4] taking 27 wickets at an average of 30.88, [7] while in one-day cricket he took 8 wickets from eight matches. [11] Castell left Hampshire at the end of the 1971 season to pursue a career in the alcoholic drinks industry. [12] From his debut in 1961,he made 110 first-class appearances for Hampshire,scoring 1,600 runs. [13] With the ball,he took 225 wickets at an average of 30.68;he took a five wicket haul on eight occasions and once took ten-wickets in a match. [14] In one-day cricket,he made thirty appearances and took 28 wickets at an average of 36.28,taking best figures of 4 for 52. [15]
Away from county cricket,he played club cricket for Old Tauntonians. [16] In the alcoholic drinks industry,he worked for The Distillers Company,which was responsible for marketing Gordon's Gin throughout the United Kingdom. [17] He retired from the industry in the late 1990s. [12]
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