Sydney Herbert Copley was a first class cricketer who played one match for Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...

 in 1930. He was born in Hucknall

Hucknall

Hucknall, formerly known as Hucknall Torkard, is a town in Greater Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, in the district of Ashfield. The town was historically a centre for framework knitting and then for mining but is now a focus for other industries as well providing housing for workers in...

, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...

, and died on the Isle of Man.

A right-handed batsman, he scored 4 and 3 in his only match and bowled 5 overs of slow left arm spin for 28 without success.

He fame rests on his appearance as 13th man for England on the final day of the 1930 Trent Bridge Test against Australia. He held a vital catch at mid on to dismiss Stan McCabe

Stan McCabe

Stanley Joseph McCabe was an Australian cricketer who played 39 Test matches for Australia from 1930 to 1938. A short, stocky right-hander,...

, changing the whole course of the match which England went on to win by 93 runs.