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Which team did the player Chris Balderstone belong to from 1965 to 1975?
Chris Balderstone John Christopher Balderstone ( 16 November 1940 – 6 March 2000 ) was an English professional in cricket and football , and one of the last sportsmen to combine both sports over a prolonged period . He played football as a midfielder for Huddersfield Town , Carlisle United , Doncaster Rovers and Queen of the South . He played and umpired first-class cricket making it to international level – he played in two Tests in 1976 and umpired two ODIs from 1994 to 1998 . In a long club career he was a key part of the five trophy winning Leicestershire side of the early and mid-1970s . Football career . Huddersfield Town . Balderstones football career started with Huddersfield Town where he was signed by Bill Shankly in May 1958 . He made 117 Football League appearances for Huddersfield , and played a total of 131 senior games for them ( scoring 25 goals ) . Carlisle United . In June 1965 he moved for £7,000 to Carlisle United who had just been promoted to the second tier of English football for the first time in their history . As Balderstone later said , They gave me a bit of stick at first because I wasnt the quickest player or the hardest tackler . I used to think I made up for it with speed of thought and control of the ball . I always had confidence in my ability and I knew thered be somebody in the crowd who appreciated a bit of skill . I won them over and they were very good to me after that . He scored on his debut , a 4–1 home win over Norwich City , which gave him the distinction of scoring the clubs first ever goal in the second level of English football . He stayed with Carlisle for the next 11 years , the clubs most successful period where not only was he a key player but also became club captain . His most notable cup run was in the 1969–70 League Cup where Carlisle made it to the semi final . He enjoyed other successes in cup competitions , In 1970 we beat Manchester City in the League Cup when they had Lee , Bell and Summerbee . And in 74 we beat Sunderland at Roker Park in the FA Cup when they were the Cup holders . We played against Liverpool in the next round and took them to a replay . In 1973–74 Balderstone enjoyed promotion to the First Division , then the highest level in the English football pyramid . It was Balderstones penalty against Pat Jennings and Tottenham Hotspur that had Carlisle briefly topping Englands Football League after the first 3 games of the 1974–75 season . However , Carlisle were relegated at the end of the season , the only relegation in Balderstones career . In all he made 376 League appearances for the Cumbrian club . Doncaster Rovers and Queen of the South . Balderstone joined Doncaster Rovers after his top-level season with Carlisle . It was when with Rovers he became the only player to play League Football and first-class cricket on the same day ( see Cricket Career under Leicestershire section ) . Balderstones next club was in Scotland . Queen of the South rang me up . Carlisle used to play practice matches against them and they remembered me . I caught the train to Dumfries from Leicester every Friday night . It was quite a trek but it gave me another couple of years football . When George Cloy and Crawford Boyd were each later interviewed for the Queen of the South website , each commented on Balderstones ability with the ball . Cloy in particular said Balderstones passing ability was the best in Cloys entire career at Queens . He later played for non-league Enderby Town . Cricket career . Yorkshire . Balderstone first appeared for Yorkshire on 10 June 1961 . Leicestershire . Balderstone later remembered , Ray Illingworth took me to Leicestershire . I might be a decent bloke on the outside but he knew I was mentally hard through football . Cricketers might think theyre pretty hard but theyre not compared to footballers . It was a great move for me . Leicestershire won their first-ever trophy in 1972 , the inaugural Benson and Hedges Cup at Lords , and Balderstone took the man of the match Gold Award . He scored 41 not out and steered the team to the trophy . This marked the beginning of a golden era for Leicestershire , with 5 trophies in 5 seasons , and Balderstone was at the core of the side . In 1973 Balderstone played his first full season of cricket and jumped right to the front-rank of English batsmen , making 1,222 runs at an average of 42 . He passed the 1,000-run mark in 10 of the next 12 seasons , batting either in the middle order or as an opening batsman . His runs were an important part of Leicestershires first County Championship success in 1975 , and he weighed in with 43 useful wickets in that season too . In 1974 , he top scored for his side in the Benson and Hedges final but they were defeated by Surrey . However , they did win the Sunday League , bettering their runners-up spot of two years before . Balderstone made history on 15 September 1975 by taking part in a County Championship match and a Football League game on the same day . Balderstone was 51 not out against Derbyshire at the end of day two of Leicestershires match at Chesterfield . After close of play he changed into his football kit to play for Doncaster Rovers in an evening match 30 miles away ( a 1–1 draw with Brentford ) . He then returned to Chesterfield the following morning to complete a century and take three wickets to help wrap up Leicestershires first ever County Championship title . In 1977 Leicestershire won their last trophy in this period , a second Sunday League victory . Among his many personal notes was in 1976 when he did the hat-trick against Sussex at Eastbourne . Five years later , against Essex at Grace Road , Leicestershires home ground , he shared an unbroken county record second wicket stand of 289 with David Gower . Having had a delayed cricket career , Balderstone played on for Leicestershire into his mid-40s without noticeably losing batting form or his fielding athleticism . Though he bowled less frequently from 1980 onwards , his batting helped take Leicestershire to runners up in the 1982 County Championship . He picked up a sixth and final winners medal with a third Benson & Hedges victory in 1985 . This makes him winner of the highest number of medals in the clubs history . Balderstone was given a testimonial benefit season in 1984 and played on for Leicestershire until 1986 . England . In 1976 , Balderstone was called into the England Test team to make his international debut aged 35 having focused in his younger days on football . Against other international sides he might have played more Tests , for he was chosen on the strength of consistent quality performances for Leicestershire . It was his misfortune , however , to come up against the West Indies just as they were reaching that level of intimidation they were to maintain for the next two decades . Against the fearsome pace of Andy Roberts and Michael Holding he struggled , like so many other English batsmen : his four innings produced only 39 runs . He did though score 35 from sticking it out for hours at the crease on his test debut . In his second test , at a parched Oval , he encountered Michael Holding and one of the finest individual fast-bowling performances in history – Holding took 14 wickets in the test . Opposing fast bowler Vanburn Holder later said , I played against him when we had a pretty ferocious attack and he never blinked . He had plenty of courage . Umpire . Balderstone moved directly into umpiring the season after he stopped playing , standing in two One Day Internationals in the mid-1990s . Death . Chris Balderstone died suddenly at his home in Carlisle on 6 March 2000 , having suffered from prostate cancer . Barrie Leadbeater , the umpires chairman and a close friend , said : He was a fine , positive player who won a lot of friends by his approach . He was a gentleman in everything he did on and off the field and his death came as a tremendous shock . He will be sadly missed . There was a refreshing honesty about everything he did and he was a true sportsman of the like we dont see today . Vanburn Holder , like Balderstone , became an umpire and stood in Balderstones last game as an umpire , at the St Lawrence Ground , Canterbury . Holder said : He was a great companion , a fine umpire and an exceptional sportsman . Honours . Football . Carlisle United:- - Second Division 1973/74 – promotion - League Cup 1969/70 – Semi finalist Cricket . Leicestershire:- - County Championship – winner – 1975 ; runner up 1982 - Sunday/National League – winner – 1974 , 1977 ; runner up 1972 - Benson & Hedges Cup – winner – 1972 , 1975 , 1985 ; runner up 1974 External links . - Cricinfo profile