John Augustine Snow is a retired English international cricketer who played for Sussex from 1961 to 1977 and represented England in 49 Test matches. He was born in Peopleton,Worcestershire.
Leg before wicket (lbw) is one of the ways in which a batter can be dismissed in the sport of cricket. Following an appeal by the fielding side,the umpire may rule a batter out lbw if the ball would have struck the wicket but was instead intercepted by any part of the batsman's body. The umpire's decision will depend on a number of criteria,including where the ball pitched,whether the ball hit in line with the wickets,the ball's expected future trajectory after hitting the batsman,and whether the batsman was attempting to hit the ball.
Sir Geoffrey Boycott is a former Test cricketer,who played cricket for Yorkshire and England. In a prolific and sometimes controversial playing career from 1962 to 1986,Boycott established himself as one of England's most successful opening batsmen. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup.
Michael William Gatting is an English former cricketer,who played first-class cricket for Middlesex and for England from 1977 to 1995,captaining the national side in twenty-three Test matches between 1986 and 1988. He toured South Africa as captain of the rebel tour party in 1990. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup and captain of the squad which finished as runners-up at the 1987 Cricket World Cup.
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.
In cricket,a dismissal occurs when a batter's innings is brought to an end by the opposing team. Other terms used are the batter being out,the batting side losing a wicket,and the fielding side taking a wicket. The ball becomes dead,and the dismissed batter must leave the field of play for the rest of their team's innings,to be replaced by a team-mate. A team's innings ends if ten of the eleven team members are dismissed. Players bat in pairs so,when only one batter remains who can be not out,it is not possible for the team to bat any longer. This is known as dismissing or bowling out the batting team,who are said to be all out.
Michael Anthony Holding is a Jamaican former cricketer and commentator who played for the West Indies cricket team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest pace bowlers in cricket history,he was nicknamed "Whispering Death" due to his silent,light-footed run up to the bowling crease. Holding was a key member of the West Indies team that won the 1979 Cricket World Cup,as well as finishing as runners-up at the 1983 Cricket World Cup. He had the most wickets for his team at the 1979 tournament. His bowling action was renowned for being smooth and extremely fast,and he used his height to generate large amounts of bounce and zip off the pitch. He was part of the fearsome West Indian pace bowling battery,together with Andy Roberts,Joel Garner,Colin Croft,Wayne Daniel,Malcolm Marshall and Sylvester Clarke,that devastated opposing batting line-ups throughout the world in the late seventies and early eighties. Early in his Test career,in 1976,Holding broke the record for best bowling figures in a Test match by a West Indies bowler,14 wickets for 149 runs (14/149). The record still stands. During his first-class cricket career,Holding played for Jamaica,Canterbury,Derbyshire,Lancashire,and Tasmania. In September 2021,Holding announced his retirement from being a commentator.
Raymond Illingworth CBE was an English cricketer,cricket commentator and administrator. As of 2015,he was one of only nine players to have taken 2,000 wickets and made 20,000 runs in first-class cricket. He played for Yorkshire,Leicestershire (1969–1978) and England (1958–1973) and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1960.
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.
Derek Shackleton was a Hampshire and England bowler. He took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket,but only played in seven Tests for England. He has the seventh-highest tally of first-class wickets,and the most first-class wickets of any player who began his career after World War II. He holds the record for the most first-class wickets taken by any Hampshire player.
David Robert Shepherd was a first-class cricketer who played county cricket for Gloucestershire,and later became one of the cricket world's best-known umpires. He stood in 92 Test matches,the last of them in June 2005,the most for any English umpire. He also umpired 172 ODIs,including three consecutive World Cup finals in 1996,1999 and 2003.
Frank Holmes Tyson was an England international cricketer of the 1950s,who also worked as a schoolmaster,journalist,cricket coach and cricket commentator after emigrating to Australia in 1960. Nicknamed "Typhoon Tyson" by the press,he was regarded by many commentators as one of the fastest bowlers ever seen in cricket and took 76 wickets at an average of 18.56 in 17 Test matches.
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.
Louis Patrick "Lou" Rowan was an Australian Test cricket umpire who umpired the first One Day International at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 5 January 1971. He umpired 25 Test matches between 1963 and 1971 and became Australia's senior umpire after the retirement of Col Egar. A Detective Sergeant with the Queensland drug squad,Rowan took no nonsense on the field either and was inclined to stand on his authority. His first match was with Umpire Bill Smyth between Australia and England at Sydney on 11 January to 15 January 1963.
Frank Chester was briefly an English first-class cricketer before the First World War. After losing an arm in active service in 1917,he was a Test cricket umpire for 31 years. Wisden stated in his obituary that he "raised umpiring to a higher level than had ever been known in the history of cricket".
The English cricket team in the West Indies in 1953–54 played five Test matches,five other first-class matches and seven other games,three of them on a two-week stop-over in Bermuda that included Christmas.
Barrie John Meyer was an English footballer,cricketer,and later a cricket umpire.
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.
William Lloyd Budd was an English first-class cricketer and international cricket umpire. Budd initially played first-class cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club between 1934 and 1938,and briefly following the Second World War. He later became an umpire,standing in four Test matches and twelve One Day Internationals from 1976 to 1979.
Alexander Zak Lees,popularly known as Alex Lees,is an English professional cricketer who plays internationally for the England Test cricket team. In domestic cricket,he represents Durham,captaining the List A and T20 teams.
