Stuart Boyes

George Stuart Boyes (31 March 1899 – 11 February 1973) was an English first-class cricketer, born in Southampton, who played for Hampshire County Cricket Club.

Stuart Boyes
Cricket information
BattingRight-handed
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 504
Runs scored 8,078
Batting average 14.95
100s/50s 2/17
Top score 104
Balls bowled 85,860
Wickets 1,472
Bowling average 23.51
5 wickets in innings 74
10 wickets in match 11
Best bowling 9/57
Catches/stumpings 495/0

Boyes was a slow left-arm bowler with a high action, taking 1415 wickets for Hampshire. He took 100 wickets in a season three times, his best year being 111 at 26.75 in 1933. He twice took a hattrick, one of them when he took his career best figures of 9 for 57 against Somerset at Yeovil in 1938. With the bat he took 413 matches before making his maiden century, only three players in history have waited longer.[1] He was an excellent close fielder and took 498 catches in first-class matches, many of them at short-leg.[2]

His major overseas tour was with the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to India and Ceylon in 1926/7. He took 56 wickets at 18.69 including 7-52 against a Europeans in the East XI at Eden Gardens, Calcutta.[3][4]

His brother Ken was a professional footballer with Southampton and Bristol Rovers, as well as a member of Hampshire's ground staff.[5]

References
  1. Most Matches Before Maiden Century
  2. Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn and Peter Wynn-Thomas, 'Who's Who of Cricketers (London, 1984), p. 128
  3. "Stuart Boyes bowling Season by Season at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015".
  4. "Europeans in the East vs. MCC at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015".
  5. Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (1992). The Alphabet of the Saints. ACL & Polar Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 0-9514862-3-3.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.