Stuart Boyes

Stuart Boyes
England (ENG)
Batting style Right-handed batsman
Bowling type Slow left-arm orthodox
First-class record
Matches 504
Runs scored 8078
Batting average 14.95
100s/50s 2/17
Top score 104
Balls bowled 85860
Wickets 1472
Bowling average 23.51
5 wickets in innings 74
10 wickets in match 11
Best Bowling 9-57
Catches/Stumpings 495/0
First class debut: -, 1921
Last first class game: -, 1939
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George Stuart Boyes (31 March 1899 – 11 February 1973) was an English first class cricketer, born in Southampton, who played for Hampshire.

Boyes was a slow left-arm bowler with a high action, taking 1415 wickets for Hampshire. He took 100 wickets in a season three times, his best year being 111 at 26.75 in 1933. He twice took a hattrick, one of them when he took his career best figures of 9 for 57 against Somerset at Yeovil in 1938. With the bat he took 413 matches before making his maiden century, only three players in history have waited longer.[2] He was an excellent close fielder and took 498 catches in first-class matches, many of them at short-leg.[3]

His major overseas tour was with the MCC to India and Ceylon in 1926/7. He took 56 wickets at 18.69 including 7-52 against a Europeans in the East XI at Eden Gardens, Calcutta.[4][5]

His brother Ken was a professional footballer with Southampton and Bristol Rovers, as well as a member of Hampshire's ground staff.[6]

References

  1. Profile on www.cricketarchive.com
  2. Most Matches Before Maiden Century
  3. Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn and Peter Wynn-Thomas, 'Who's Who of Cricketers (London, 1984), p. 128
  4. "Stuart Boyes bowling Season by Season at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015".
  5. "Europeans in the East vs. MCC at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015".
  6. Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (1992). The Alphabet of the Saints. ACL & Polar Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 0-9514862-3-3.

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