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Chilton Richard Vernon Taylor (born 3 October 1951) is a former English cricketer active from 1970 to 1981 who played for Warwickshire, Middlesex, Cambridge University, the combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricket team and Cheshire. He was born in Birkenhead. He appeared in 33 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman and wicketkeeper. He scored 276 runs with a highest score of 25. He held 56 catches and completed nine stumpings. [1]
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Lancashire Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in English cricket. The club has held first-class status since it was founded in 1864. Lancashire's home is Old Trafford Cricket Ground, although the team also play matches at other grounds around the county. Lancashire was a founder member of the County Championship in 1890 and has won the competition nine times. Lancashire has won 26 major honours in its history. The club's men's limited overs team is called Lancashire Lightning and women's team is Lancashire Thunder.
Oxford UCCE started their 2005 first-class season with a weak draw against a Gloucestershire side that opted to use the game as batting practice. Their second first-class game, against Derbyshire, Oxford UCCE did well in the first innings, dismissing their visitors cheaply and building up a large lead. However, they weren't able to dismiss them a second time, in a game which was reduced through rain. In the third match, they lost by ten wickets against Lancashire, after a poor showing in their second innings.
Tom Launcelot Taylor was an English amateur cricketer, who played for Yorkshire during its successful period under Lord Hawke between 1900 and 1902. Taylor was a noted amateur batsman, who retired early as he needed to devote his time to his engineering business after the 1902 season.
Mark James Chilton is an English first-class cricketer. Chilton was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Durham University where he won the British Universities tournament in 1997. The same year he made his debut for Lancashire, aged 20. Chilton has been compared in batting style to fellow Manchester Grammar School student and former Lancashire and England batsman John Crawley.
Sir Francis Eden Lacey was an English cricketer, cricket administrator and barrister. Lacey played first-class cricket for Hampshire from 1880 to 1896, either side of the club losing its first-class status between 1886 and 1894; it was during this period that he captained Hampshire in 1888 and 1889. A prolific batsman for Hampshire, he scored over 2,000 runs for the county in 33 first-class appearances, which included a double century against Kent in 1884. As a roundarm slow bowler, he also took 45 wickets for Hampshire, including three five wicket hauls. He made additional appearances in first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), amongst others. In a minor fixture against Norfolk he made 323 runs, which remains the highest individual score in second-class county cricket.
George Moreton Buckston was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1903, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Derbyshire between 1905 and 1921.
Nicholas Simon Taylor is an English former first-class cricketer. Born at Holmfirth, the son of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club stalwart Ken Taylor, he made his debut as a right arm fast medium bowler, and right-handed tail end batsman, for Yorkshire in 1982. After failing to establish himself in the team he moved first to Surrey for the 1984 and 1985 seasons, before ending his career at Somerset in 1986. He reappeared for Norfolk in List A cricket in 1990.
Cricket, and hence English amateur cricket, probably began in England during the medieval period but the earliest known reference concerns the game being played c.1550 by children on a plot of land at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, Surrey. It is generally believed that cricket was originally a children's game as it is not until the beginning of the 17th century that reports can be found of adult participation.
Geoffrey Parker Brooke-Taylor was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1919 and 1920, for Derbyshire in 1920 and for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1928.
Thomas Webley is an English cricketer. Webley is a left-handed batsman who bowls slow left-arm orthodox.
Claude Hilary Taylor was an English cricketer. Taylor was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break googly. He was born in Leicester, Leicestershire.
Edward John Craig is an English academic philosopher, editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and former Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is also a former cricketer at first-class level: a right-handed batsman for Cambridge University and Lancashire.
Dave Gelly MBE is a British jazz critic. A long-standing contributor to The Observer, he was named Jazz Writer of the Year in the 1999 British Jazz Awards. Gelly is also a jazz saxophonist and broadcaster, presenting a number of shows for BBC Radio 2 including Night Owls for much of the 1980s.
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Richard Bladworth Hawkey was an English first-class cricketer and squash player.
William Snowden is an English former cricketer.
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Henry John Corbett Taylor is an English former first-class cricketer.
John Marratt Taylor was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.