Michael Paul Vaughan is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer who played all forms of the game. He served as England captain for the test team from 2003 to 2008,the one-day international team from 2003 to 2007,and was the first Twenty20 England captain from 2005 to 2007. He represented Yorkshire in the domestic arena.
Dennis Brian Close,was an English first-class cricketer. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949,when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England,captaining them seven times to six wins and one drawn test. Close also captained Yorkshire to four county championship titles –the main domestic trophy in English cricket. He later went on to captain Somerset,where he is widely credited with developing the county into a hard-playing team,and helping to mould Viv Richards and Ian Botham into the successful players they became.
Harold Dennis"Dickie" Bird,,is an English former cricketer and retired international cricket umpire. During his long umpiring career,he became a much-loved figure among players and viewing public,due to his excellence as an umpire,but also his many eccentricities.
Martin John Saggers is an English county cricket umpire and a retired English cricketer. He played international cricket for the England cricket team,including appearing in three Test matches and spent the majority of his first-class cricket career at Kent County Cricket Club. Saggers was born in King's Lynn in Norfolk.
John Harry Hampshire,also known as Jack Hampshire,was an English cricketer and umpire,who played eight Tests and three One Day Internationals (ODIs) for England between 1969 and 1975. He played first-class cricket for Yorkshire from 1961 to 1981,and for Derbyshire from 1982 to 1984. Overseas,he was a successful captain of Tasmania in the period before the state was included in the Sheffield Shield. He was also appointed President of Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2016,serving until his death a year later.
Martyn Douglas Moxon is a former English cricketer,who played in ten Test matches and eight One Day Internationals for England and for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1980 and 1997. In May 2007,Moxon was confirmed as Director of Professional Cricket at Yorkshire,a role which he left in December 2021.
Winston Place was an English cricketer who played in three Tests in 1948. An opening batsman for Lancashire,he shared a prolific partnership with Cyril Washbrook and was part of the county championship winning side of 1950. Place played first-class cricket until 1955,when his contract was not renewed. He became an umpire for one season,but retired to spend more time with his family.
John Christopher Balderstone was an English professional in cricket and football,and one of the last sportsmen to combine both sports over a prolonged period. He played football as a midfielder for Huddersfield Town,Carlisle United,Doncaster Rovers and Queen of the South. He played and umpired in first-class cricket making it to international level –he played in two Tests in 1976 and umpired in two ODIs between 1994 to 1998. In a long club career,he was a key part of the five trophy winning Leicestershire side of the early and mid-1970s.
Mark Richard Benson is an English former cricketer and umpire. A left-handed batter,Benson played for Kent for 17 years and represented England in one Test match and one One Day International in 1986. He later took up umpiring and remained on the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires. In January 2016 he retired as an umpire.
Barrie John Meyer was an English footballer and cricketer,and later a cricket umpire.
Thomas Christopher Smith is a former English cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club. He had also been a member of the England Academy team. In 2008,he played for Leicestershire on loan because he was unable to break into Lancashire's first team. He is an all-rounder,bowling right-arm medium and batting left-handed. At the start of the 2009 season,Smith was promoted to open the batting,having previously batted in the lower order,and secured his place there. In 2011,the year Lancashire won the County Championship for the first time since 1950,Smith became the first Lancashire player to score a century and take four wickets in the same one-day match. In 2011/12 Smith played for the Matabeleland Tuskers in Zimbabwe as an overseas player in the domestic twenty20 competition.
Michael Burns is an English first-class list cricket umpire and former first-class cricketer who played county cricket for Warwickshire and Somerset in a first-class career which spanned from 1992 until 2005. He also played Minor Counties cricket for Cumberland and Cornwall. An adaptable cricketer,he appeared for Cumberland and Warwickshire as a wicket-keeper,but when he moved to Somerset he developed into an aggressive batsman who bowled at medium-pace when needed.
Richard Allan Kettleborough is an English international cricket umpire,and former first-class cricketer who appeared in 33 first-class matches for Yorkshire and Middlesex. He was a left-handed top order batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. He attended Worksop College and was a member of the college cricket XI for a number of years.
Colin Johnson is an English first-class cricketer,who played 100 matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1969 and 1979.
Alan Wesley Hampshire is an English first-class cricketer,who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1975.
Alexander Skelding was a first-class cricketer and umpire,who is remembered as one of the great characters in the game.
Paul James Horton is a retired former cricketer who played for Lancashire and Leicestershire in England and Matabeleland Tuskers in Zimbabwe.
Don Tallon was a key member of Donald Bradman's famous Australian cricket team tour of England in 1948,in which Australia was undefeated in their 34 matches. This unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned them the sobriquet The Invincibles.
Jack David Shantry is a former English cricketer who played county cricket for Worcestershire. He is now an umpire.
Alexander Zak Lees is an English professional cricketer who plays internationally for the England Test cricket team. In domestic cricket,he represents Durham,captaining the ListA and t20 teams.
