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Peter Anthony Simpkins (27 November 1928 – 4 January 2011) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born in Dover, Kent. Simpkins made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Berkshire in 1958 against Dorset.
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English first-class cricket was suspended from 1915 to 1918 and from 1940 to 1944 with only a handful of matches in 1945. Note that for the purposes of this category, all players who were eligible to represent England in Test cricket may be included and so there are some players here of other nationalities including Irish, Scottish and Welsh.
The conflicts featured on this list are, in chronological order, the Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, First Boer War, Mahdist War, Second Boer War, World War I, Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, World War II and the South African Border War. Approximately 210 first-class cricketers are known to have served in the First World War. [1]
From 1941 to 1945 the University Match was played annually at Lord's as a one-day, and hence not first-class, game.Because Fenner's had not been commandeered, Cambridge had played nine matches during the 1941 season against Sussex and strong military and hospital teams and won four against a single defeat, [6] whereas Oxford had played no cricket whatsoever due to The Parks being commandeered. [7]
This category is designed to group articles about English cricketers who were active in the seasons following the end of the Second World War until 1968 which was the last season to have the County Championship as the predominant domestic competition, the limited overs national league beginning in 1969.
The period between 1890 and immediately before the First World War is known as the Golden Age of cricket. It saw great amateur players such as CB Fry (95), the Indian Prince Ranjitsinhji (105) and captains Stanley Jackson (82), Archie MacLaren (92) and Plum Warner (118) as the leading lights in an era eulogised by Neville Cardus and others. In ...
The Victory Tests were a series of cricket matches played in England from 19 May to 22 August 1945, between a combined Australian Services XI and an English national side. The first match began less than two weeks after the end of World War II in Europe, and the matches were embraced by the public of England as a way to get back to their way of life from before the war.