George Langdale

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George Langdale
Personal information
Full name
George Richmond Langdale
Born(1916-03-11)11 March 1916
Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire, England
Died24 April 2002(2002-04-24) (aged 86)
Holbeck, Leeds, England
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm off-break
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1936–1937Derbyshire
1946–1949Somerset
FC debut15 August 1936 Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire
Last FC23 May 1953 Minor Counties v Australians
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 25
Runs scored 707
Batting average 18.12
100s/50s 1/3
Top score 146
Balls bowled 1,678
Wickets 23
Bowling average 40.82
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 5.30
Catches/stumpings 7/–
Source: CricketArchive, January 2012

George Richmond Langdale OBE (11 March 1916 – 24 April 2002) was a schoolmaster, writer on mathematics and an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1936 to 1937 and for Somerset from 1946 to 1949. He also played for the minor counties Norfolk and Berkshire.

Langdale was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in Yorkshire. He first played cricket for Derbyshire in the 1936 season taking part in three games and helping them to capture their first and only County Championship victory. In the 1937 season he played one first team game and then for the Derbyshire second team. On 1 September 1938 Langdale became a teacher at the City of Norwich School[1]

Second World War he played occasional matches including one for Anti-Aircraft Command against Balloon command, and another for the Army against the Royal Australian Air Force.[3]

In 1946 Langdale left

Minor Counties against Australia. In the same Minor Counties season, playing for Berkshire he took all 10 Dorset wickets in an innings for 25 runs. He captained Berkshire again from 1956 to 1959 and continued playing for the team until 1963. Langdale was a right-arm offbreak bowler and took 23 wickets first-class wickets with an average of 40.82 and a best performance of 5–30. He was a left-handed batsman and remained a lower-middle order batsman throughout his first-class career. He played 42 innings in 25 first-class matches with an average of 18.12 and a top score of 146.[4]

Langdale published a number of papers on mathematical subjects and teaching, often using cricket examples.

Welbeck College, for the Ministry of Defence. In the 1982 New Year Honours he was awarded the OBE.[6]

Langdale died in Holbeck, Leeds in at the age of 86.

Publications

  • Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack and the teaching of statistics. The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 38, No. 324, 118–120. May 1954.
  • The Slide Rule The Mathematical Gazette, May 1959 p113
  • A Simple Course on Astronautics The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 47, No. 360 May 1963, pp. 107–113[7]
  • Square ball The Mathematical Gazette, October 1974 p216,

References

  1. ^ City of Norwich School – staff
  2. ^ Derek James Wartime boys remember troubled times at school Norwich Evening News
  3. ^ Australian War Memorial Collection Archived 11 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ George Langdale at Cricket Archive
  5. ^ Mathematical Gazette Index 1950 -1959
  6. ^ London Gazette 31 December 1981
  7. ^ Jstor Articles
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