Alan Revill
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| Full name | Alan Chambers Revill | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 March 1923 Thomas Revill (father) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1946–1957 | Derbyshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1958–1960 | Leicestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 18 May 1946 Derbyshire v Essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 1 June 1960 Leicestershire v Middlesex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 9 March 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alan Chambers Revill (27 March 1923 – 6 July 1998) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1946 and 1957 and for Leicestershire from 1958 to 1960. He scored more than 15,000 first-class runs.
Revill was born in
Revill, a fine close fielder, lost form in the
Revill was a right-handed batsman and played 654 innings in 387 first-class matches with an average of 26.48 and a top score of 156 not out. He hit sixteen centuries and passed 1000 runs in a season nine times (including twice for Leicestershire) with a best of 1643 runs (35.71) in 1950. He was an occasional right-arm off-break bowler and took 49 first-class wickets with an average of 39.26 and a best performance of 3 for 12. He played one one-day match without scoring, but taking a wicket.[1]
Revill played in Leicestershire Second Eleven in 1960 and 1962. From 1963 until 1965, and again in 1968, he played for Berkshire, making an appearance in the 1965 Gillette Cup against Somerset. His picture is up in the Gateway Centre, Derby.
Revill died at the age of 75 in Brent, London. In his obituary in The Daily Telegraph, it was noted that he was a fine raconteur. Michael Parkinson said "he could talk the leg off an iron pot".[2]
References
- Wisden 1946, 1951, 1959