Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Ian Geoffrey Swallow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Barnsley, Yorkshire, England | 18 December 1962|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off-break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1983–1989 | Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1990–1991 | Somerset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source:CricketArchive,22 December 2015 |
Ian Geoffrey Swallow (born 18 December 1962,Barnsley,Yorkshire,England) is a former English first-class cricketer,who appeared for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1983 to 1989, [1] and for Somerset in 1990 and 1991.
Swallow was a right-arm off break bowler and a right-handed batsman. In 88 first-class matches he scored 1,550 runs at 20.39,with his single century being a score of 114. He took 106 wickets,with a best of 7 for 95,at an average of 54.69. He is considered to be the greatest of all time at Elsecar CC where he retired from cricket last season.