Norman Yardley
Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England, as a righthanded batsman and occasional bowler. An amateur, he captained Yorkshire from 1948 to 1955 and England on fourteen occasions between 1947 and 1950, winning four Tests, losing seven and drawing three. Yardley was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1948 and in his obituary in Wisden Cricketers Almanack, he was described as Yorkshires finest amateur since Stanley Jackson.
Yardley was born in Royston, near Barnsley, onMarch 1915 to a family with no real background in cricket. He was sent to St Peters, York, where he made a good impression as a cricketer, being in the school team for five years from 1930 and captain in his final two years. In 1933, his first season in charge, he scored 973 runs at an average of 88.45, scoring three centuries in consecutive innings. He headed the bowling averages, withwickets at 11.90 runs per wicket. His form that season saw him selected for the match between Young Amateurs and Young Professionals at Lords Cricket Ground, in which Yardley scored 189 in his first representative match, playing against his future England teammate Denis Compton. In 1934, Yardley played in two further representative matches at Lords, for The Rest against Lords Schools, and for Public Schools against The Army, making 117, the first century in the fixture for Public Schools, and 63. Wisden Cricketers Almanack later cited these successes
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