Reg Sinfield
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Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm slow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Only Test | 10 June 1938 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 20 July 2021 |
Reginald Albert Sinfield (1900–1988) was a Gloucestershire cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s.
Sinfield played one Test in the twilight of his career in 1938, where he is best remembered for having Don Bradman as his first Test victim. However, he had a long career with Gloucestershire prior to achieving higher representative honours, during which his steadiness provided a contrast with the attacking style of cricket provided by batsmen like Hammond and Barnett or bowlers like Goddard.
Biography
Sinfield was born on 24 December 1900 at Benington, Hertfordshire.
He played his initial first-class match for
Sinfield's skill as a bowler was slower to blossom because Charlie Parker and Goddard could do almost everything that was required until the end of 1931. Although he took ninety wickets for under twenty apiece in 1930, it was not until 1934 that Sinfield became recognised as a bowler of class. In that year, he headed the Gloucestershire averages and when the pitch helped him could be formidable indeed, as he showed with thirteen wickets against Nottinghamshire and eight for 40 against Leicestershire. The following year, despite the county's other batsmen declining, Sinfield had his best season with the bat, largely because he increased his range of scoring strokes without losing his defensive strength. In August that year he made his highest score, 209 not out against Glamorgan at Cardiff – and followed that up with a haul of nine wickets for 103.
In 1936, Sinfield developed so much as a bowler that he bowled considerably more overs than anyone else in the country. So consistent was he, until he fractured a finger in the second last match against
In 1939, Sinfield was asked to do much less bowling with Goddard fully fit and devastating on the helpful Bristol turf, but Sinfield did recapture some of his old skill with the bat. Though, since his record was only 835 runs and 66 wickets it could hardly be said he was in his best form. When first-class cricket resumed in 1946 Goddard continued his devastating form for several years, but Sinfield took immediately to coaching at