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Frederick Sewards Trueman,was an English cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. He had professional status and later became a popular author and broadcaster.
Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University,Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England,as a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler. An amateur,he captained Yorkshire from 1948 to 1955 and England on fourteen occasions between 1947 and 1950,winning four Tests,losing seven and drawing three. Yardley was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1948 and in his obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack,he was described as Yorkshire's finest amateur since Stanley Jackson.
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.
Johnny Wardle was an English spin bowling cricketer whose Test Match career lasted between 1948 and 1957. His Test bowling average of 20.39 is the lowest in Test cricket by any recognised spin bowler since the First World War.
Robert Appleyard was a Yorkshire and England first-class cricketer. He was one of the best English bowlers of the 1950s,a decade which saw England develop its strongest bowling attack of the twentieth century. Able to bowl fast-medium swingers or seamers and off-spinners with almost exactly the same action,Appleyard's career was almost destroyed by injury and illness after his first full season in 1951. In his limited Test career,he took a wicket every fifty-one balls,and in first-class cricket his 708 wickets cost only 15.48 runs each.
John Victor Wilson was an English first-class cricketer,who played for and captained Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He was born in Scampston near Norton-on-Derwent in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Peter Appleyard,was a British–Canadian jazz vibraphonist,percussionist,and composer.
Oxfordshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Oxfordshire.
Len Hutton captained the English cricket team in Australia in 1954–55,playing as England against Australia in the 1954–55 Ashes series and as the MCC in other matches on the tour. It was the first time that an England team had toured Australia under a professional captain since the 1880s. After losing the First Test by an innings,they beat Australia 3–1 and retained the Ashes. The combination of Frank Tyson,Brian Statham,Trevor Bailey,Johnny Wardle and Bob Appleyard made it one of the strongest bowling sides to tour Australia,and it was the only team of any nationality to defeat Australia at home between 1932–33 and 1970–71.
Terence Allcock is a former professional footballer who played for Bolton Wanderers and Norwich City. He was also a first-class cricketer.
Playfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April,just before the English cricket season is due to begin. It has been published every year since 1948. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current players. It is produced in a "pocket-sized" format,being approximately 5×4 in,so that it is a convenient size for carrying to cricket matches. The front cover of each edition has featured a photograph of a prominent current cricketer. There is a popular myth that this "honour" has a "hex" or "curse" associated with it,as the player featured then invariably has a poor season.
The Pakistani cricket team toured England in the 1954 season. The team played four Test matches against England,winning one,losing one and drawing two. These were the first Test matches played between the two sides. In winning the fourth and final Test,Pakistan became the first side to win a Test on its inaugural tour of England.
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.
William John House is an English former professional cricketer. In 1993,three years before the start of his first-class career,House won "The Cricket Society Wetherall Award for the Leading All-rounder in English Schools Cricket". He was born in Sheffield in South Yorkshire.
Cricket is the most popular summer sport in New Zealand,second only in total sporting popularity to rugby. New Zealand is one of the twelve countries that take part in Test match cricket.
Francis Appleyard was an English first-class cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He was born in Clifton,Yorkshire and died in Stevenage.
The 1954–55 Ashes series between Australia and England consisted of five Test cricket matches,each of six days duration with five hours play each day and eight ball overs. It formed part of the MCC tour of Australia in 1954–55 and the English team in matches outside the Tests were styled Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). England were captained by Len Hutton,the first professional cricketer to lead an MCC tour of Australia. The Australian team under Ian Johnson were confident of victory but,despite losing the first Test by an innings,England won the series 3–1 and retained the Ashes.
William David Sheridan is an Australian cricketer who has played domestically for Victoria and the Melbourne Renegades.
Raymond "Ray" Julian is a former English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Leicestershire between 1953 and 1971. He continued in cricket after his playing days were over by standing as an umpire in first-class,List A and one-day international matches between 1972 and 2001. He was born at Cosby,Leicestershire.
Leonard Pavy is an Australian cricketer. He played seven first-class matches for Western Australia in 1954 and 1955.