Sailor Young
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Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut | 29 June 1899 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 17 July 1899 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 6 November 2022 |
Harding Isaac "Sailor" Young (5 February 1876 – 12 December 1964) was a professional
Young was a left-arm medium-pace bowler and a capable lower-order batsman. His bowling achieved considerable turn off the wicket, and was described in
Sailor Young was picked for two
Young's success in 1899 led to great expectations for him, but after an excellent performance for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Yorkshire early in the year "Sailor" surprisingly fell off to such an extent that for Essex in county matches he took only forty-three wickets as against eighty-nine. After improving a little in 1901 and doing an impressive performance on a soft pitch against Kent early in 1902 "Sailor" nevertheless fell off completely. By 1903 his wicket tally was down to just 52 and after that season he dropped out of regular cricket because of severe rheumatism in his muscles. Sailor Young continued to play a few matches for Essex and as a member of the MCC ground staff right up to 1912, but could never undertake anything more than very short bowling spells. In 1910-11 he was a member of the MCC team that toured the West Indies.
From 1921 to 1931, Young was a first-class umpire and he officiated in two Test matches in 1924 and 1926.
References
- First-Class Bowling in Each Season
- ^ Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1970 edition, page 1027. Young's death in 1964 went unreported until the 1970 edition of Wisden.