Tony Vickery

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Anthony Vickery (26 August 1925 – 27 May 2013) played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1947 and 1948. [1] He also played Minor Counties cricket for 10 years from 1949 for Cheshire. He was born at Taunton, Somerset.

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each although, in practice, a team might play only one innings or none at all.

Cricket Team sport played with bats and balls

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this and dismiss each player. Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten players have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in international matches. They communicate with two off-field scorers who record the match's statistical information.

Somerset County Cricket Club British Cricket Club

Somerset County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Somerset. The club's limited overs team was formerly the Somerset Sabres, but is now known only as Somerset.

Vickery played half a dozen matches as a right-handed batsman for Somerset, without much success. His best innings was only 21 and was made batting at No 9 in the second innings of the match against Worcestershire at Worcester in 1947; he had batted at No 3 in the first innings and a week earlier in the home match against the same opponents he had opened in one innings. [2] After graduating from Bristol University, Vickery moved to the north of England, where he played as a heavy-scoring middle-order batsman and a regular bowler for Cheshire until 1959.

Worcestershire County Cricket Club english cricket team

Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Worcestershire. Its Vitality Blast T20 team - who are the defending champions after claiming their first title in 2018 - has been rebranded the Worcestershire Rapids, but the county is known by most fans as "the Pears". The club is based at New Road, Worcester. Founded in 1865, Worcestershire held minor status at first and was a prominent member of the early Minor Counties Championship in the 1890s, winning the competition three times. In 1899, the club joined the County Championship and the team was elevated to first-class status. Since then, Worcestershire have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.

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References

  1. ↑ CricketArchive refers to him consistently as "Alan Vickery". "Alan Vickery". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  2. ↑ "Scorecard: Worcestershire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 5 July 1947. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
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