deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 150 1 may 1968 1 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 1931 1929 & ndash ; 1939 2012 14 february 1902 & ndash ; england yeovil , somerset , england minor counties bedfordshire & ndash ; right-handed reginald valentine ward biggleswade , bedfordshire , england first-class http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22736.html cricinfo 1902 2 14 yes 4 2 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 1 reginald ward

reginald ward

reginald valentine ward -lrb- 14 february 1902 -- 1 may 1968 -rrb- was an english cricketer .
ward was a right-handed batsman .
he was born at biggleswade , bedfordshire .
ward made his debut in county cricket for bedfordshire against oxfordshire at bedford school in the 1929 minor counties championship .
he played minor counties cricket for bedfordshire from 1929 to 1939 , making a total of 48 appearances for the county , the last of which came against cambridgeshire at wardown park , luton .
in 1931 , he was selected to represent a combined minor counties cricket team in a first-class match against the touring new zealanders at the rose brothers ground , gainsborough .
winning the toss and electing to bat first , the minor counties made 191 all out , with ward the last man out , dismissed for 4 by cyril allcott .
the new zealanders then made 361/8 declared in their first-innings , during which ward took the wickets of lindsay weir and tom lowry to finish with figures of 2/77 from 25 overs .
the minor counties reached 115/3 in their second-innings , at which point the match was declared a draw .
he died at yeovil , somerset , on 1 may 1968 .
