Fred Titmus
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Full name | Frederick John Titmus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Somers Town, London, England | 24 November 1932|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 23 March 2011 England | (aged 78)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off-break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut | 23 June 1955 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 30 January 1975 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut | 8 March 1975 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 9 March 1975 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 19 August 2013 |
Frederick John Titmus
Early years
Educated at
1950 was Titmus's first full season of
1955 was a good year for Titmus, as he did the
England: picked and dropped
A fine display for MCC against the
From 1956 to 1962 inclusive, Titmus achieved the double in every year except 1958, but a place in the Test team still eluded him. 1961 was his best year with the bat, as he scored 1,703 runs at a fine average of 37.02, including 14 half-centuries; he passed 50 more than a hundred times in the course of his first-class career.
Recalled to the Test team
His form in 1962, 136 wickets and 1,238 runs, led to Titmus being recalled to Test cricket, and he played in the third and fourth Tests against
For five years Titmus was consistently selected for England, and he produced some outstanding displays, not least in
Boating accident
Titmus was appointed vice-captain for the Tour of the
Titmus's batting gradually became less effective, and from 1969 onwards he passed 50 only six more times, though he did make an unbeaten 112 against Warwickshire as late as 1976. Until 1976 he took at least 57 first-class wickets in every year.
Later career
1974/75 saw Titmus make an unexpected return to the England team, as he played in four of the six Ashes Tests. Though he took only seven wickets, he scored 61 at
Having coached in South Africa on several occasions earlier in his career, in the 1975/76 winter Titmus played for
He created a Middlesex appearance record of 642, and took 2,361 wickets, another county record, in addition to racking up in excess of 20,000 runs.[2]
Press, publications and media
Titmus published his first autobiography Talk of the Double in 1964.[7] In it he revealed that he was born in Somers Town and that his family moved to Kentish Town in 1939. In his second autobiography, My Life in Cricket published in 2005, he was rather more forthright in his views of former playing colleagues, and depicted five decades of his playing career with passion.[8]
He also served as an England test selector from 1994 to 1996.
He was the subject of the 1985 song Fuckin' 'Ell It's Fred Titmus on the album Back in the DHSS by the British band Half Man Half Biscuit.
Final years
Fred Titmus died on 23 March 2011, aged 78, after a long illness. He was married twice, firstly to Jean, and he was survived by his second wife, Stephanie. He had three children and two grandchildren.
References
- ^ "Middlesex County Cricket Website – Fred Titmus (1932–2011)". Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Retrieved 23 March 2011 - ^ ISBN 1-869833-21-X.
- ^ p184, Titmus
- ^ Cricketer of the Year 1963 – Fred Titmus, Wisden, Retrieved 25 April 2009
- ^ a b "Obituary: Frederick John Titmus". Wisden/www.espncricinfo.com. 8 June 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ Ronay, Barney (26 July 2020). "Lonsdale Skinner: 'Most of the racism came from the committee room'". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ Talk of the Double, Fred Titmus, S. Paul (1964), ASIN B0000CM6OK
- ISBN 978-1-84454-124-9