Paul Winslow (cricketer)

Paul Winslow
	Transvaal
Died	24 May 2011 (aged 82); Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Legbreak
International information
National side	South Africa;
Test debut	10 February 1950 v Australia
Last Test	21 July 1955 v England
Career statistics
	Source: Cricinfo, 15 November 2022

Paul Lyndhurst Winslow (21 May 1929 – 24 May 2011) was a South African

Transvaal and died in Parktown

in the same city.

Winslow was chiefly a hard-hitting middle order batsman who had success for

Transvaal

, but he retired from cricket aged 30 to go into business when it became clear that he would not regain his place in the South African national team.

Winslow's father Charles was a leading tennis player, winning two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics and a bronze in 1920,^[1] and Winslow's grandfather Lyndhurst Winslow played first-class cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club, scoring a century on debut against Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.^[2]

In five Tests, Winslow played just one great attacking innings, at Old Trafford on the Saturday of the Third Test of 1955, scoring 108 in a little over three hours against the England attack, then one of the best in the world, with Tyson, Lock, Bailey and Bedser in the side, going to his hundred, just before tea, with a straight six into the practice ground at the Stretford end. In the 1950s, such innings were rare, and nothing like it was seen in a Test on the ground for another 25 years. It turned the match, which South Africa narrowly won.

Sources

Overson, C. "... and never got another one", The Cricket Statistician, No. 144,
Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
, Nottingham, UK.

References

^ Overson, p. 10.
^ Overson, p. 9.

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[1] Overson, p. 10.

[2] Overson, p. 9.

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