Michael Packe
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Full name | Michael St John Packe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Batsman | 21 August 1916||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1936–1939 | Leicestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1936–1938 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 10 June 1936 Cambridge University v Essex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 30 August 1939 Leicestershire v Derbyshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 8 June 2008 |
Michael St John Packe (21 August 1916 – 20 December 1978) was an English historian, biographer, and
Personal life
Born in
Published historical works
Packe's first book was First Airborne (1948), reprinted in 1988 as Winged Stallion: Fighting and Training with the First Airborne (
Packe's next book, The Bombs of Orsini (1957) was a biography of
Cricket career
Packe made his first-class debut for Cambridge University against Essex in June 1936, playing for the university against the Free Foresters the following week. He first played for Leicestershire in August that year, in a County Championship match against Northamptonshire. He played five more County Championship matches for Leicestershire that month.[13]
He did not play for his university team in the 1937 season, but did play nine first-class matches for Leicestershire – seven in the County Championship, one against Oxford University and one against New Zealand. He played just four matches in 1938, all for Cambridge University, including one against Australia. His last match for the university was against Nottinghamshire.[13]
In April 1939 he played for Egypt against HM Martineau's XI in Cairo.[14] Back in England, he captained Leicestershire during the 1939, playing in 18 County Championship matches in addition to matches against Cambridge University, Oxford University and the West Indies. His last first-class match was against Derbyshire.[13]
On Alderney he served as judge for the local cricket team History of Alderney Cricket, and he left Alderney each year to attend the Lord's Test.[1]
Cricket statistics
In his 41 first-class matches, Packe scored 1151 runs at an average of 18.86. He made just one century,[3] an innings of 118 for Leicestershire against Glamorgan in 1936, described by Wisden as "brilliant".[4] He took one wicket,[3] that of Yorkshire's Arthur Wood in 1939.[15]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h John Arlott, "From Time to Time: Michael Packe, late British author and cricketer" The Guardian, 13 June 1986.
- ^ Cricinfo profile
- ^ a b c d CricketArchive profile
- ^ a b c Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1980, Obituaries before 1979
- ^ Teams played for by Michael Packe at CricketArchive
- ^ Robert Packe and Charles Packe at CricketArchive
- ^ "No. 37909". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 March 1947. p. 1315.
- ^ "Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Packe". Pegasus Archive.
- ^ "1st British Airborne Division officers – P". unithistories.com.
- ^ F. A. Hayek, "Preface," in Michael St. John Packe, The Life of John Stuart Mill (1954)
- ^ Lionel Robbins, "Packe on Mill," Economica, New Series, Vol. 24, No 95 (August 1957), pp. 250–259
- ISBN 0521620244)
- ^ a b c First-class matches played by Michael Packe at CricketArchive
- ^ Other matches played by Michael Packe at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Yorkshire v Leicestershire, 7 June 1939 at CricketArchive