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John Aldridge (cricketer)
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Keith John Aldridge was an English
cricket
er. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who took more than 250 first-class wickets. As a batsman he offered little, with a career batting average
of under seven. He was born in Evesham
.
Aldridge debuted for Worcestershire
during the 1956 season, in a game against Sussex
, in which he scored a duck in each innings in which he batted, though he picked up two wickets with the ball in the first innings. Aldridge played frequently as the team's number 11 batsman during the 1956 season, taking the place of recently retired two-time Test cricketer Reg Perks
. However, Aldridge's debut season was disappointing in terms of performances with the bat, as he made an average of just over 2.
Aldridge played less frequently during the 1957 season and had to wait until nearly two months into the 1958 season before making his first appearance for the side, as the Worcestershire side was supplemented on several occasions by future England Test cricket
ers Len Coldwell
and Jack Flavell
. However, Aldridge was able to make a good account of himself, playing for much of the second half of the season, while the team themselves finished ninth in the County Championship for the year. Aldridge played for two further seasons in the Worcestershire team, before emigrating to Australia.
Aldridge was capped by Worcestershire in 1959, a year prior to his last in English county cricket. He subsequently moved to Australia where he began playing first-class cricket for Tasmania. It was for Tasmania that he played his first cricket match for nearly two years against Victoria, but Aldridge was unable to make much of an impact for the team, playing just five further times until his final appearance for the side, just after Christmas in 1963. Aldridge was a tailend batsman for both his representative cricket teams in England and Australia, with seven five-wicket hauls to show for his fast-medium bowling over the eight years he played.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who took more than 250 first-class wickets. As a batsman he offered little, with a career batting average
Batting average
Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...
of under seven. He was born in Evesham
Evesham
Evesham is a market town and a civil parish in the Local Authority District of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England with a population of 22,000. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon...
.
Aldridge debuted for Worcestershire
Worcestershire County Cricket Club
Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire...
during the 1956 season, in a game against Sussex
Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Sussex. The club was founded as a successor to Brighton Cricket Club which was a representative of the county of Sussex as a...
, in which he scored a duck in each innings in which he batted, though he picked up two wickets with the ball in the first innings. Aldridge played frequently as the team's number 11 batsman during the 1956 season, taking the place of recently retired two-time Test cricketer Reg Perks
Reg Perks
Reginald Thomas David "Reg" Perks was an English cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1939, and was the mainstay of Worcestershire's bowling for a long period from the middle 1930s until the middle 1950s...
. However, Aldridge's debut season was disappointing in terms of performances with the bat, as he made an average of just over 2.
Aldridge played less frequently during the 1957 season and had to wait until nearly two months into the 1958 season before making his first appearance for the side, as the Worcestershire side was supplemented on several occasions by future England Test cricket
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
ers Len Coldwell
Len Coldwell
Len Coldwell was an English cricketer, who played in seven Tests for England from 1962 to 1964. Coldwell was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who was, for a few years in the early to mid-1960s, half of a respected and feared new-ball partnership in English county cricket...
and Jack Flavell
Jack Flavell
Jack Flavell was an English cricketer who played in four Tests for England from 1961 to 1964. His county cricket career was spent with Worcestershire, with whom Flavell won two County Championship titles...
. However, Aldridge was able to make a good account of himself, playing for much of the second half of the season, while the team themselves finished ninth in the County Championship for the year. Aldridge played for two further seasons in the Worcestershire team, before emigrating to Australia.
Aldridge was capped by Worcestershire in 1959, a year prior to his last in English county cricket. He subsequently moved to Australia where he began playing first-class cricket for Tasmania. It was for Tasmania that he played his first cricket match for nearly two years against Victoria, but Aldridge was unable to make much of an impact for the team, playing just five further times until his final appearance for the side, just after Christmas in 1963. Aldridge was a tailend batsman for both his representative cricket teams in England and Australia, with seven five-wicket hauls to show for his fast-medium bowling over the eight years he played.
External links
- John Aldridge at Cricket Archive