Leslie Marshall (cricketer)

Leslie Marshall

Personal information
Full name	Leslie Phillips Marshall
Born	25 January 1894 Tripatur, Chennai, India
Died	28 February 1978 (aged 84) Taunton, Somerset, England
Nickname	LP Marshall
Batting style	Right-handed
Role	Batsman
Relations	Brother Alan
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1913–31	Somerset
First-class debut	30 June 1913 Somerset v Yorkshire
Last First-class	9 June 1931 Somerset v New Zealanders
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 11 Runs scored 162 Batting average 8.52 100s/50s –/– Top score 37 Balls bowled 24 Wickets 1 Bowling average 16.00 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 1/7 Catches/stumpings 6/–
Source: CricketArchive, 11 July 2010

Leslie Phillips Marshall MC MD TD (25 January 1894 – 28 February 1978) played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1913 and 1931.^[1] He was born at Chennai, India, then called Madras, and died at Taunton, Somerset.

Educated at Taunton School, Marshall played in three first-class matches for Somerset at the age of 19 in 1913, but a score of 26 against Derbyshire was his only success.^[2] His schooling was interrupted in 1914 when he joined the British forces serving overseas. He was discharged at the end of the war after receiving shrapnel wounds to the leg and buttock. He then made one first-class appearance in each of the 1914, 1919, 1926 and 1928 seasons, making little impact and, while a student at Cambridge University, he also appeared in one of the non-first-class trials matches in 1919, though he did not appear for the University side in any first-class games.^[3][4] In 1931, he returned for four matches, the most he played in any one season, and in his final match, against the New Zealanders, he twice improved his highest score, made 18 years earlier, with 29 in the first innings and 37 in the second.^[5]

Family and life outside cricket

His brother Alan also played for Somerset between 1914 and 1931. He also had a brother Basil and a sister (?) who died in childhood. Following service in the First World War, Marshall qualified as a physician.^[6][7] and in 1931 married Catherine Mary (née Hext) who also qualified as a doctor. He and Mary had two sons, William Hext Marshall (1933), who became a doctor and Hugh Marshall (1935?), who became a vicar. In 1936, they had a son who was stillborn.^[8] In 1937, he was awarded an MD Doctor of Medicine degree at Cambridge University. He lived in Tan House in Blagdon Hill just outside Taunton from WW II until the end of his life. His wife survived him by three years, dying on 16 February 1981.^[9]

References

1. "Leslie Marshall". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
2. "Scorecard: Derbyshire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 14 July 1913. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
3. "First-class Batting and Fielding in each season by Leslie Marshall". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
4. "Other matches played by Leslie Marshall". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
5. "Scorecard: Somerset v New Zealanders". www.cricketarchive.com. 6 June 1931. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
6. "Royal College of Physicians: Quarterly Comitia", The Times (London) (43405), 28 July 1923, p. 4
7. "Obituary, 1978". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1979 ed.). Wisden. p. 1083.
8. "Births", The Times (London) (47336), 30 March 1936, p. 1
9. "Deaths", The Times (London) (60857), 20 February 1981, p. 28