Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Rodney Lynes Pratt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire | 15 November 1938|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1955–64 | Leicestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 18 June 1955 Leicestershire v Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 18 August 1964 Leicestershire v Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
List A debut | 1 May 1963 Leicestershire v Lancashire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last List A | 27 May 1964 Leicestershire v Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source:CricketArchive,9 January 2014 |
Rodney Lynes Pratt (born 15 November 1938) is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire between 1955 and 1964. [1] He was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He was born at Stoney Stanton in Leicestershire.
Pratt was just 16 when he made his first-class cricket debut for Leicestershire in 1955,and only 17 when he took 10 Somerset wickets for a total of 60 runs in a match in 1956. [2] But after this promising start he largely disappeared from county cricket for the next three seasons,making only occasional appearances for Leicestershire while he was doing his National Service,but playing also in a handful of first-class games for the Combined Services cricket team. [3] In one of those occasional Leicestershire games in the summer of 1959 he revealed hitherto unseen batting skills:it was his 19th first-class game,and his innings of 80 against Essex was a bigger total than all of his previous innings combined,and was to remain his highest score. [4]
Pratt returned to county cricket in 1960 and for the next four seasons was a fairly regular member of the Leicestershire first team,usually acting as the third seam bowler after Terry Spencer and,often,Brian Boshier and batting around No 7 in the order –Leicestershire in this period had a very long tail. He had some successes as a batsman:in June 1960,for example,he made 71 against Hampshire and later in the same month there was 62 against Nottinghamshire. [5] [6] He did not improve on his previous best bowling figures in 1960,but in 1961 against Glamorgan,opening the bowling with Spencer,he took seven for 47 and these were the best bowling figures of his career. [7] He took 65 wickets in 1961,and this was the best seasonal return of his career. [8] Pratt missed the whole of the first half of the 1962 season,not appearing in the first team until July,a period in which Leicestershire failed to record a single victory in 13 County Championship matches. [3] He then took 50 wickets and,although Leicestershire still finished at the bottom of the Championship table,in the last game of the season they came close to beating the Champions,Yorkshire,with Pratt taking 11 wickets in the match. [9] [10]
Pratt's first-class career then tailed off in the 1963 and 1964 seasons:in 1963,he was a regular in the team until the end of June,but then reappeared in only the last two games;and in 1964,he made only eight first-class appearances. In both seasons,he played in Leicestershire's single matches in the Gillette Cup one-day competition. He scored 25 and took the first three wickets,albeit expensively,in the first-ever English List A match in 1963;Leicestershire were so comprehensively thumped in 1964 that he did not even get on to bowl. [11] [12] At the end of the 1964 season,he left the Leicestershire staff.
Sydney Frank Burke was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches,one in each of 1962 and 1965.
Emmanuel Alfred Martindale was a West Indian cricketer who played in ten Test matches from 1933 to 1939. He was a right-arm fast bowler with a long run up;although not tall for a bowler of his type he bowled at a fast pace. With Learie Constantine,Martindale was one of the earliest in the long succession of Test-playing West Indian fast bowlers. During the time he played,the West Indies bowling attack depended largely on his success. Critics believe that his record and performances stand comparison with bowlers of greater reputation and longer careers.
Keith John Aldridge is an English former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Worcestershire in England and for Tasmania in Australia. He was born in Evesham,Worcestershire.
David George Doughty played first-class cricket for Somerset in 17 matches in the 1963 and 1964 seasons. He also appeared in one one-day match in the Gillette Cup.
Geoffrey Harold Hall was an English cricketer. He was born in Colne,Lancashire. During his career,he played for Somerset County Cricket Club,and made a total of 48 first-class appearances for the county.
Daren Joseph Foster played first-class and List A cricket for Somerset and Glamorgan between 1986 and 1993. He was born in Tottenham,London.
John Donald Martin is an English retired cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Somerset. He also played Minor Counties cricket for Oxfordshire and Berkshire. He was born in Oxford.
Peter Arthur Onslow Graham played first-class cricket for Somerset in six matches in 1948. He was born at Kurseong,Darjeeling,India and died on the island of Jersey.
John Scholes Savage was an English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Leicestershire and Lancashire between 1953 and 1969. He was born at Ramsbottom,Lancashire and died at Rochdale.
Thomas Jayes was an English first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire between 1903 and 1911. He was born and died at Ratby,Leicestershire. Jayes was a right-arm fast bowler and a hard-hitting lower middle-order right-handed batsman;unusually for fast bowlers of the era when he played,he was also rated as a good fielder.
Frank Bale was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire between 1920 and 1928. He was born and died at Leicester,Leicestershire.
Gerald Lester was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire. He was born at Long Whatton,Leicestershire and died at Leicester.
Haydon Arthur Smith was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire from 1925 to 1939. He was born and died at Groby,Leicestershire. He was the uncle of later Leicestershire cricketer Terry Spencer.
William Henry Flamson was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire between 1934 and 1939. Flamson was born and died at Heather,Leicestershire.
David Kirby was an English cricketer who had a short but intensive career in first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Leicestershire between 1959 and 1964 and was captain of both. After his cricket career,he taught at his former school,St Peter's School,York.
Victor Stanislaus Munden was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire between 1946 and 1957. He was a left-handed middle-order batsman and a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. He was born at Leicester.
Bernard Cromack is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire between 1959 and 1961,reappearing in a single match in 1968. He was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. He was born at Rothwell in Yorkshire.
Albert Wright is a former English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Warwickshire between 1960 and 1964. He was a right-handed tail-end batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He was born at Arley in Warwickshire.
Roland George Thompson,generally known as "Roly Thompson",was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire between 1949 and 1962. He was a right-handed tail-end batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He was born at Binley,Coventry and died at Coventry.
Walter Basil Bridge is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire between 1955 and 1968. He was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He was born at Selly Oak,Birmingham.