Leslie Ethelbert George Ames was a wicket-keeper and batsman for the England cricket team and Kent County Cricket Club. In his obituary,Wisden described him as the greatest wicket-keeper-batsman of all time. He is the only wicket-keeper-batsman to score a hundred first-class centuries.
Worcestershire County Cricket Club in 2005 played their County Championship games in Division Two and their Totesport League games in Division One. Under their new captain,Vikram Solanki,they were tipped to go straight back up to the top flight of the County Championship and started the season 9–2 second favourites to end up as Division Two champions.
Kenneth Cecil James,was a New Zealand Test cricketer who played for Wellington and Northamptonshire. He also served in New Zealand's Royal Air Force during second World War.
David Alleyne is a former English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex and Nottinghamshire. He was primarily a wicket-keeper,"whose limitations with the bat severely limited his opportunities" and therefore primarily played in second XI cricket during his eleven seasons as a professional.
Richard John Blakey is a former English cricketer who played in two Test matches and three One Day Internationals from 1992 to 1993.
The Australian cricket team toured England during the 1902 English cricket season. The five-Test series between the two countries has been fondly remembered;in 1967 the cricket writer A. A. Thomson described the series as "a rubber more exciting than any in history except the Australia v West Indies series in 1960–61". Australia had won the previous three Test rubbers between the two countries,and now won their fourth successive series,by two matches to one with two draws. In the process they "beat the records of all their predecessors in the country" by losing only two of 39 matches during the tour,their defeats being against England in the Fifth Test and in the first of their two fixtures against Yorkshire. The remaining 37 matches gave 23 wins for Australia and 14 draws.
David Ripley is an England cricket coach and former cricketer who played for Northamptonshire in county cricket from 1984-2001.
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.
Samuel Moorhouse Crossland was an English first-class cricketer,who played four matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1883 and 1886.
David Hunter was part of a lineage of Yorkshire County Cricket Club wicket-keepers,stretching on through Arthur Dolphin to Arthur Wood,Jimmy Binks and David Bairstow. Hunter played 517 first-class games for Yorkshire between 1888 and 1909.
George Rodney Cass was an English cricketer:a wicket-keeper who played first-class cricket for Essex and Worcestershire in England,and for Tasmania in Australia,in the 1960s and 1970s. He was capped by Worcestershire in 1970. He was born at Overton,Wakefield,Yorkshire,and educated at Dewsbury Technical College.
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.
Ernie Toshack was a member of Donald Bradman's famous Australian cricket team,which toured England in 1948 and was undefeated in their 34 matches. This unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned Bradman's men the sobriquet The Invincibles.
Neil Thomas McCorkell was an English cricketer. He was right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Portsmouth,Hampshire. Debuting for Hampshire County Cricket Club in 1932,McCorkell played first-class cricket for Hampshire in two periods,from 1932 to 1939,then after World War II from 1946 to 1951. Statistically he ended his first-class career as Hampshire's most successful wicket-keeper in first-class cricket,with 677 dismissals,although Bobby Parks later overtook that total. Following his retirement he emigrated to South Africa,where he still resided until his death. In 2012,he became the 16th first-class cricketer to reach 100 years of age.
David "Dai" Davies was a Welsh first-class cricketer and Test match umpire.
Benjamin Walter Bellamy was a professional cricketer who spent his entire career at Northamptonshire. His career spanned 16 years,retiring in 1935 by which time he had played 351 first-class matches,but returning in a crisis for two games two seasons later.
Frank Henry Vigar was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Essex County Cricket Club between 1938 and 1954. A right-handed batsman,and leg break bowler,Vigar served as an all-rounder with 8,858 runs at 26.28 and 241 wickets at 37.90. From his rained-off debut in 1938,Vigar went on to play 257 matches for his county. His greatest success came in the "golden summer" of 1947,where he scored 1,735 runs and took 64 wickets. A partnership with Peter Smith of 218 for the final wicket remains an Essex record.
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1990 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire won the Refuge Assurance League winning twelve of their sixteen matches. The club had been playing for one hundred and nineteen years. In the County Championship,they won six matches to finish twelfth in their eighty-sixth season in the Championship. They were eliminated in round 2 of the National Westminster Bank Trophy and at group level in the Benson &Hedges Cup.
Adrian Desmond Brown is a former English cricketer. Brown was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Clacton-on-Sea,Essex.
John Whitehouse is an English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Warwickshire between 1971 and 1980 and captained the team in 1978 and 1979. He was born in Nuneaton,Warwickshire.
