Colin Fairservice
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Full name | Colin Fairservice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | off-break | 6 August 1909||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Bill Fairservice (father) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1929–1933 | Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1934–1936 | MCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1936 | Middlesex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 22 June 1929 Kent v Derbyshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 20 June 1936 Middlesex v MCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 14 June 2017 |
Colin Fairservice (6 August 1909 – 29 December 1999) was an English professional cricketer. He played for Kent County Cricket Club from 1929 to 1933 and for Middlesex County Cricket Club in 1936, making a total of 74 first-class cricket appearances in his career.
Fairservice was born in
Having played for
county cap in that season.[3][4][5] Fairservice made a total of 59 appearances for Kent before leaving the county at the end of the 1933 season. He spent the following two years qualifying to play for Middlesex, during which he made occasional first-class appearances for MCC. During 1936 he played six times for Middlesex before ending his first-class career.[4]
Fairservice worked at Stonyhurst College and then coached cricket and rugby at The King's School, Canterbury between 1954 and 1975.[3][6][7] He coached David Gower who went on to captain the England cricket team.[8] He died at Canterbury in 1999 aged 90, at the time Kent's oldest living cricketer.[1][3]
References
- ^ CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
- CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
- ^ Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-23.)
- ^ a b c Colin Fairservice, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-06-14. (subscription required)
- ^ Kent County Cricket Club - Capped Male Players, Kent County Cricket Club. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
- ^ King's Canterbury, Schools Cricket Online. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
- ^ Lewis P (2014) For Kent and Country, pp.170–171. Brighton: Reveille Press.
- ^ Gower D (2014) An Endangered Species, pp.42–43. London: Simon & Schuster. (Available online. Retrieved 2016-11-15).
External links
Colin Fairservice at ESPNcricinfo