Raymond Flood (cricketer)
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| Full name | Raymond David Flood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 November 1935 off break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1956–1960 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Raymond David Flood (21 November 1935 – 13 March 2014) was an English first-class cricketer active in the late 1950s and beginning of the 1960s.
Cricket career and life
Flood made his
Jimmy Gray and Henry Horton limited his appearances, in what was a strong Hampshire side for the time.[2]
He made his breakthrough into the Hampshire first-team in 1959, making twenty first-class appearances in a season characterised by good weather and an early experiment with
The Football League to playing for Hampshire on a full-time basis, Flood's career did not survive much longer;[2] he made one further appearance, in 1960 against Oxford University.[1] After a serious knee injury, he was released by Hampshire prior to the 1961 season.[4]
His batting strengths were described by
window cleaner and playing club cricket for Lyndhurst for thirty seasons.[6] He was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2013 and died six months later on 13 March 2014 in Lyndhurst.[4] His brother, John, was a footballer who played 129 matches for Southampton.[4]
References
- ^ a b c "First-Class Matches played by Ray Flood". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
- ^ a b c "Hampshire Cricket History: Ray Flood". www.hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Raymond Flood". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
- ^ a b c "Hampshire Cricket Legend Passes Away". Southern Daily Echo. Southampton. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
- ^ Arlott, John (1959). John Arlott’s Cricket Journal 2 (2nd ed.). London: Heinemann.
- ^ "Wisden Obituaries - 2014". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 June 2023.