Cyril Perkins

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Cyril Perkins
Personal information
Full name
George Cyril Perkins
Born(1911-06-04)4 June 1911
Slow left-arm orthodox

Left-arm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1934–1937
Minor Counties
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 57 1
Runs scored 589 –
Batting average 8.18 –
100s/50s 0/0 –
Top score 29 –
Balls bowled 7,772 72
Wickets 93 0
Bowling average 36.11 –
5 wickets in innings 5 –
10 wickets in match 0 –
Best bowling 6/54 –
Catches/stumpings 30/– 0/–
Source: Cricinfo, 12 June 2011

George Cyril Perkins (4 June 1911 – 21 November 2013)

batsman who bowled both slow left-arm orthodox and left-arm medium pace. He was born in Wollaston, Northamptonshire. On 4 June 2011 he became the 13th former first-class player to reach 100 years of age, and the fourth county cricketer to do so. Following the death of Syd Ward in January 2010, Perkins held the distinction of being the oldest living first-class cricketer.[2]

Career

Perkins made his first-class debut for

catches in the field.[7] Perkins left Northamptonshire at the end of the end of the 1937 season, having played his final match against Lancashire at Old Trafford.[3]

Moving to

Second World War ended county cricket until 1946. During the war, he served with the Royal Artillery, spending time at the end of the war in Cairo, Egypt.[9] Perkins returned to playing minor counties cricket for Suffolk following the war, which he had to balance with his work commitments as cricket coach at Ipswich School.[9]

In 1951 he made his final first-class appearance, which came for the

Minor Counties cricket team against Kent.[3] In his final first-class match, he scored 8 runs in the Minor Counties first-innings and an unbeaten 21 in their second-innings. However, he went wicket-less with the ball and Kent won by an innings.[10] This meant he went winless in his 57 first-class appearances, a record for the number of first-class appearances without featuring in a win.[2]

Perkins continued to play for Suffolk in the Minor Counties Championship until 1967, having by then made 105 appearances for the county.[8] By the time of his retirement at the age of 56, he had claimed a record 779 wickets for the county,[2] some way ahead of Colin Rutterford's 431.[9] Such was Perkins' accuracy as a bowler, The Daily Telegraph reporter Simon Parry-Crooke described watching him bowl as: "he had this incredible control: he could just drop the ball on a handkerchief."[9] Indeed, he once took 10 wickets in an innings, when playing against Hertfordshire in 1960. He still had the match ball when he celebrated his 100th birthday.[9]

Perkins also made a solitary

Ipswich School.[11] He bowled 12 wicket-less overs for the cost of 31 runs, while he wasn't required to bat in the Suffolk innings as Kent ran out winners by 113 runs.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Brammer, Chris (21 November 2013). "OBITUARY: Suffolk cricket legend Cyril Perkins". East Anglian Daily Times. www.eadt.co.uk. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Bolton, Paul (4 June 2011). "Rare cricketing century for Cyril Perkins". The Wisden Cricketer. www.thecricketer.com. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  3. ^ a b c "First-Class Matches played by Cyril Perkins". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  4. ^ "First-class Bowling For Each Team by Cyril Perkins". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  5. ^ "Northamptonshire v Worcestershire, 1935 County Championship". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  6. ^ "First-class Bowling in Each Season by Cyril Perkins". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  7. ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Cyril Perkins". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  8. ^ a b "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Cyril Perkins". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  9. ^ a b c d e Briggs, Simon (3 June 2011). "Former Suffolk cricketer Cyril Perkins celebrates 100th birthday". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  10. ^ "Kent v Minor Counties, 1951". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  11. ^ "List A Matches played by Cyril Perkins". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  12. ^ "Suffolk v Kent, 1966 Gillette Cup". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2011.

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Preceded by Oldest Living First-Class Cricketer
1 January 2011 – 21 November 2013 		Succeeded by
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