Ray Julian
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Full name | Raymond Julian | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cosby, Leicestershire, England | 23 August 1936|||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Wicketkeeper | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
1953–71 | Leicestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 9 May 1953 Leicestershire v Gloucestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 25 May 1971 Leicestershire v Gloucestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||
List A debut | 1 May 1963 Leicestershire v Lancashire | |||||||||||||||||||||
Last List A | 22 May 1965 Leicestershire v Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||
Umpiring information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
ODIs umpired | 6 (1996–2001) | |||||||||||||||||||||
FC umpired | 521 (1972–2001) | |||||||||||||||||||||
LA umpired | 532 (1972–2001) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive (subscription required), 28 June 2013 |
Raymond "Ray" Julian (born 23 August 1936) is a former English
one-day international matches between 1972 and 2001. He was born at Cosby, Leicestershire
.
Playing career
Julian was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a
wicketkeeper. He made his first-class debut for Leicestershire as a 16-year-old in a single match against Gloucestershire in May 1953.[2] There were a few more games, plus a period of National Service, over the next few years, but he did not displace Jack Firth
as Leicestershire's first choice wicketkeeper until Firth retired at the end of the 1958 season.
From 1959 to 1965, Julian was Leicestershire's main wicketkeeper, though his indifferent batting and Leicestershire's perennially long tail in this period meant that other wicketkeepers such as
county cap and took 72 catches with 7 stumpings.[3] As a batsman, he scored 561 runs in 1960 with an average of 12.46 and a highest score of just 44: the high aggregate reflects the fact that he went in at No 8 because in Terry Spencer, John Savage and Brian Boshier or Peter Broughton, there were usually three even worse batsmen than he was, and Leicestershire usually batted twice in each match.[3] His highest score, one of only two innings over 50, was 51, made against Worcestershire in 1962 as a high-scoring match petered out to a draw.[4]
By the mid-1960s, recruits from other countries brought in by the Leicestershire secretary, later manager,
Gillette Cup
competitions of 1963, 1964 and 1965, but all three games were lost.
Umpiring career
Julian was appointed to the first-class umpires' list for England and Wales in 1972, the first season after he formally retired as a player. He remained on the list for 30 seasons until he retired at the end of the 2001 season at the compulsory retirement age of 65.one-day international matches.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Ray Julian". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Scorecard: Gloucestershire v Leicestershire". CricketArchive. 9 May 1953. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ a b "First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Ray Julian". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Scorecard: Worcestershire v Leicestershire". CricketArchive. 18 August 1962. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 1 January 2020.