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Greville Thomas Scott Stevens was an English amateur cricketer who played for Middlesex, Oxford University and England. A leg-spin and googly bowler and attacking batsman, he captained England in one Test match, in South Africa in 1927. He was widely regarded as one of the leading amateur cricketers of his generation who, because of his commitments outside cricket, was unable to fulfil his potential and left the game early.
Robert Walter Vivian Robins was an English cricketer and cricket administrator, who played for Cambridge University, Middlesex, and England. A right-handed batsman and left-arm leg-break and googly bowler, he was known for his attacking style of play. He captained both his county and his country; after the Second World War, he served several terms as a Test selector.
Peter Parfitt is an English former cricketer. He attended Fakenham Grammar School, and King Edward VII Grammar School, in Kings Lynn, Norfolk.
Arthur Percival Day was an English amateur cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club during the period of the county's greatest success in the County Championship before World War I. He played in all four of Kent's Championship winning sides in the pre-war period and scored over 7,000 first-class runs. He was chosen as one of the Cricketers of the Year in 1910.
1868 was the 82nd season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). It featured the tour by the team of Australian Aboriginals.
Peter John Keith Gibbs is an English television script writer, and a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University from 1964 to 1966, and for Derbyshire from 1966 to 1972.
Roger Pearman was an English cricketer and cricket administrator.
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Christopher Herbert Millington Greetham played first-class cricket for Somerset from 1957 to 1966 as a middle-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler. Greetham was a tall, fair-haired right-handed batsman usually used in Somerset's late middle order and a right-arm seam bowler who, for a couple of seasons in the early 1960s, took enough wickets to be classed as an all-rounder. He was considered a good cover fielder, with a strong and accurate throw.
John William Lee, generally known as Jack Lee, was an English cricketer who played for Somerset from 1925 to 1936, having played one match for Middlesex in 1923. He was an all-rounder, scoring six centuries and taking ten wickets in a match on two occasions by the end of his career. He was killed on active service with the British Army during the Second World War.
Edward Hastings Buckland was an English first-class cricketer. Buckland was a right-handed batsman who bowled both right-arm off break and right-arm underarm fast. Buckland played the role of an all rounder.
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Ronald William Hooker was an English cricketer. Hooker was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. A successful all-rounder, Hooker played for the first-class county Middlesex and later for the minor county Buckinghamshire, in a career which spanned from 1956 to 1975. He was born in Lower Clapton, London.
Amritt Harrichand "Harry" Latchman is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Middlesex and Nottinghamshire between 1965 and 1976. A leg-spin bowler and useful lower-order right-handed batsman, he played over 200 first-class cricket matches for his two English counties, securing nearly 500 wickets.
Roger Alfred Geoffrey Luckin is a former English cricketer. He played for Essex as a batsman in 1962 and 1963.
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Frederick Steven Goldstein was a cricketer who played first-class cricket in England and South Africa from 1966 to 1977.
Christopher James Robert "Sam" Black is a former cricketer who played for Middlesex from 1970 to 1973.
Charles Edward Manoharan "Mano" Ponniah is a Sri Lankan architect and engineer who played first-class cricket in Sri Lanka and England from 1964 to 1969.
Dudley Richard Owen-Thomas is an English lawyer and former first-class cricketer.
