Arthur McIntyre (cricketer, born 1918)
 McIntyre teaching cricket to a boy in 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Arthur John William McIntyre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 May 1918 Kennington, London, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 December 2009 (aged 91) Hordle, Hampshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 352) | 12 August 1950 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 21 July 1955 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1938–1963 | Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1950–1951 | Marylebone Cricket Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 14 August 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur John William McIntyre (14 May 1918 – 26 December 2009) was an English
Life and career
He was born in
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In his autobiography, Peter May wrote that McIntyre should have played many times for England (he played in only three Tests and in one of those not as wicket-keeper). May commented on McIntyre's reliability and how he kept superbly to the great Surrey bowling attack of Bedser, Loader, Laker and Lock on difficult wickets. McIntyre, said May, made it look easy and was "never acrobatic" (unlike Evans). McIntyre himself said he had the greatest difficulty keeping wicket to Jim Laker who "spun the ball so viciously".[1]
He retired from regular first-class cricket after the 1958 season and became Surrey's coach, a position he held until the end of the 1976 season.[2] He made a few first-class appearances while coach when the usual wicket-keeper was injured or unavailable: six in 1959, two in 1960 and two in 1963. Following the death of Ken Cranston on 9 January 2007, he became England's oldest living former Test cricketer. He died on Boxing Day, 2009.
References
- ^ a b Obituary. The Daily Telegraph (30 December 2009)
- ^ ISBN 1-869833-21-X.
External links
- Arthur McIntyre at ESPNcricinfo
- Guardian obituary
- England's oldest surviving Test cricketer dies, Cricinfo, 9 January 2007
- Arthur McIntyre, Cricketer of the Year 1958, from Cricinfo(text taken from the 1958 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almamack)
- Arthur McIntyre dies aged 91, Cricinfo, 26 December 2009
- Smith, Martin (editor). The Promise of Endless Summer (Cricket Lives from the Daily Telegraph). Aurum (2013).