Laurie Gray

For the Miss America contestant, see Laurie Gray (Miss Rhode Island).

Lawrence Herbert Gray was a first class cricketer and test match umpire.[1] Born in Tottenham in 1915, he played 219 matches for Middlesex as a right arm fast medium bowler between 1934 and 1951. He took 637 wickets at 25.13 with a best of 8 for 59. He took 5 wickets in an innings 26 times and 10 wickets in a match on 3 occasions. He then turned to umpiring, standing in the England v South Africa test at Lord's in 1955 and the England v West Indies match at Birmingham in 1963. He died in Essex in 1983.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13721.html


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