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It was Balderstone's penalty against Pat Jennings and Tottenham Hotspur that had Carlisle briefly topping England's Football League after the first 3 games of the 1974–75 season. However, Carlisle were relegated at the end of the season, the only relegation in Balderstone's career. [4] In all he made 376 League appearances for the Cumbrian ...
Wayne Larkins (born 22 November 1953) [1] is an English former cricketer, who represented Northamptonshire, Durham and Bedfordshire as an opening batsman throughout his career. He was selected to play for England as Graham Gooch's opening partner on tours of Australia and the West Indies. He was also a semi-professional footballer.
An opening batsman, his highest first-class score was 134 against Hampshire in 1900, when Essex won by 206 runs. [3] He also played football. He signed for Corpus Christi College as an amateur player in 1887. The following year, in November, he signed for Notts County and played in The Football League. [4]
He made more than 200 league appearances for Burnley side, scoring more than 40 goals. He played just one season with Bradford City, scoring four goals from 36 games. [1] Chew was dubbed to have the hardest shot in league football and had one of the most feared left foots ever. [citation needed] He was born in Blackburn. [1]
Other batsmen, such as David Gower, found the attack difficult to cope with, and the later England captain stated that Boycott often had no sympathy. [147] Boycott was the third most successful batsman, behind Gooch and Gower, during a tour in which England went down 2–0. He scored 70 in the opening match, the only England player to pass 50 ...
The club is based at Grace Road in Leicester, known as The Uptonsteel County Ground for sponsorship reasons, and has also played home games at Aylestone Road in Leicester, at Hinckley, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Coalville and most recently Kibworth inside the traditional county boundaries of Leicestershire, and at Oakham ...
Herbert Sutcliffe (24 November 1894 – 22 January 1978) was an English professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman.Apart from one match in 1945, his first-class career spanned the period between the two world wars.
However, after scoring 84 in England's first Test against South Africa, Burns was ruled out the last 3 Tests after rolling his ankle playing a game of football. [25] The injury would have also ruled him out of England's upcoming tour of Sri Lanka, but the series was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . [ 26 ]