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42 20 october 1985 1933 1 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 1933 2008 10 june 1908 right-arm off-break surrey & ndash ; england gloucester , england somerset true & ndash ; right hand batsman hnaalston.jpg granny alston hallam newton egerton alston somerset cheltenham , england fc 26 july http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/archive/players/3/3402/3402.html cricketarchive first-class 1908 6 10 yes 6 1 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 1 granny alston

granny alston

hallam newton egerton `` granny '' alston , born at cheltenham on 10 june 1908 and died at gloucester on 20 october 1985 , was an english cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for somerset .
alston made one appearance for somerset during the 1933 season , against surrey at the oval .
while he scored just two runs in the first innings of the game and four in the second , his bowling figures of 1-6 from seven overs were economical , and his only first-class wicket was that of 50-year-old former test cricketer jack hobbs , though hobbs had made 117 by the time he was out .
alston was a right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler .
in the second world war , he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the somerset light infantry .
while on service , he played a non-first-class war-time cricket match for the combined services cricket team at hull and took five london counties wickets for 31 runs with his off-spin .
