Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Nicholas Wisdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Edmonton, Middlesex, England | 18 March 1953||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1974 | Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source:Cricinfo,6 October 2010 |
Nicholas Wisdom (born 18 March 1953) is an English former cricketer,turned businessman. [1] He was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. The son of Sir Norman Wisdom,the comedian,singer-songwriter and actor,he was born in Edmonton,Middlesex.
Wisdom made two first-class appearances for Sussex in 1974,against Oxford University at Cricket Field Road Ground,Horsham,and Worcestershire in the County Championship at the Central Recreation Ground,Hastings. [2] Against Oxford University he scored 31 not out in his only innings in the match,as well as taking the wickets of Peter Thackeray and Rick Lee, [3] while against Worcestershire he scored 4 in his only innings of the match. [4]
Following his brief cricket career,he opened a sports shop in Haywards Heath,Sussex. [5]
Norman Gifford is a retired English cricketer,who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. Gifford played county cricket for Worcestershire,and Warwickshire County Cricket Clubs,and represented England in fifteen Test matches and two One Day International between 1964 and 1985.
Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet was an English amateur cricketer who played for Somerset and Oxford University. A graceful right-handed batsman,he was selected to play Test cricket for England twice in 1902. Contemporaries judged Palairet to have one of the most attractive batting styles of the period. His obituary in The Times described him as "the most beautiful batsman of all time". An unwillingness to tour during the English winter limited Palairet's Test appearances;contemporaries believed he deserved more Test caps.
‘Fostershire’ was a name jocularly applied to Worcestershire County Cricket Club in the early part of the 20th century,shortly after the county had achieved first-class status and admission into the English County Championship. The name came from the fact that seven brothers from the Foster family played for Worcestershire during this period,three of whom captained the club at some point.
George Frederick Wheldon was an English sportsman. He was sometimes known as Fred or Freddie Wheldon. In football,he was an inside-forward for England and several Football League clubs,in particular for Small Heath and Aston Villa. In cricket,he was a right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper,who played county cricket for Worcestershire in their early seasons in the first-class game.
Norman Stewart "Mandy" Mitchell-Innes was an amateur cricketer for Somerset,who played in one Test match for England in 1935. Between 1931 and 1949 Mitchell-Innes played 132 first-class matches,appearing 69 times for Somerset,and 43 times for Oxford University. In these matches he scored 6,944 runs,including 13 centuries and a top score of 207. He was well-regarded for the grace of his batting,but his cricket career was limited by both hay fever and his overseas work commitments.
The 2006 English cricket season was the 107th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. It included home international series for England against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. England came off a winter with more Test losses than wins,for the first time since 2002-03,but still attained their best series result in India since 1985. The One Day International series against Pakistan and India both ended in losses.
Norman Harry Whiting was an English first-class cricketer who played 59 matches for Worcestershire in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He was born in Wollaston,which at that time lay within Worcestershire. Primarily a batsman,he also bowled a little in later seasons and occasionally stood in as wicket-keeper.
Gehan Dixon Mendis is an English former cricketer who was an opening batsman for Sussex and Lancashire between 1974 and 1993. He was part of the Lancashire team that won the 1990 Benson &Hedges Cup and 1990 NatWest Trophy. Mendis scored over 21,000 runs in his first-class career.
Timothy Edwards is a former English cricketer,who played first-class and List A cricket for Worcestershire and for Somerset County Cricket Club. He also for minor counties cricket for Cornwall. He was born in Penzance.
Karl Robert Brown is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Lancashire until 2018. Brown made his first-class debut in 2006 and his list A debut the following year. Between 2005 and 2007,Brown played 15 Youth One Day Internationals. In 2011,Brown scored his maiden centuries in first-class and list A cricket and debuted for Lancashire in twenty20s.
Arthur Temple Lyttelton was an Anglican Bishop from the Lyttelton family. After studying at Eton College and Cambridge University,he was ordained as a priest in 1877,and was a curate at St Mary's in Reading. He later served as vicar in Eccles,before being appointed as the third Suffragan Bishop of Southampton. He gave and published a number of lectures relating to his faith,and was the Hulsean Lecturer in 1891. He was also one of eleven members of the Lyttelton family to play first-class cricket.
Robert George Mallaby Carter,known as Bob,is a former English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Worcestershire. He was capped by the county in 1965,and was awarded a benefit season in 1973,which raised about £7,000. All but two of his 523 first-class wickets came for Worcestershire;the others were obtained for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in the very last game of his career. Carter’s batting was generally extremely poor,as evidenced by his career batting average of under five in both forms of the game,although he did play one significant –if ultimately fruitless –innings. In the 1963 Gillette Cup final against Sussex at Lord's,he came to the wicket with Worcestershire 133/9,needing 35 runs to win. In fading light,he and wicket-keeper Roy Booth added 21 before Carter was run out to end the match. Carter also played in a critical close finish the following season against Nottinghamshire,where he and Flavell managed to get home by a single wicket and virtually seal the county’s first Championship title.
Derek John Semmence was an English cricketer. Semmence was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Worthing,Sussex.
Alfred George Tuppin was an English cricketer. Tuppin was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Brighton,Sussex.
John Heneage Kelsey was an English cricketer. Kelsey was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Tunbridge Wells,Kent,and was educated at Repton School.
Francis Percy Umfreville Pickering was an English cricketer. Pickering was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm underarm fast. He was born at Shipton,Yorkshire,the son of James Henry Shipton,and was educated at Eton College and Christ Church,Oxford.
Alan William Mansell was an English cricketer. Mansell was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Redhill,Surrey.
Kenneth Alan Higgs was an English first-class cricketer active in the 1920s who made over forty appearances for Sussex. Born at Haywards Heath,Sussex,Higgs was a right-handed batsman. He was known as "the Haywards Heath amateur" and was a corn merchant by profession.
Jacob Daniel Libby is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman who plays for Worcestershire.
The Rose Bowl,known for sponsorship reasons as Ageas Bowl is a cricket ground and hotel complex in West End,Hampshire. It is the home of Hampshire County Cricket Club,who have played there since 2001.