Stuart Boyes

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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

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.

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". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  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.
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