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 60 9 october 1975 1 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 1925 ; 1924 2011 & ndash ; 1935 1923 1911 & ndash 20 june 1896 & ndash ; england pateley bridge , yorkshire , england oxfordshire glamorgan bedfordshire & ndash ; right-handed basil leonard rogers bedford , bedfordshire , england first-class http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/19459.htmll cricinfo 1896 6 20 yes 46 1 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 2 basil rogers

basil rogers

basil leonard rogers -lrb- 20 june 1896 -- 9 october 1975 -rrb- was an english cricketer .
rogers was a right-handed batsman .
born in bedford , bedfordshire , he was the son of richard rogers and julia marsh .
his father was head groundsman at bedford modern school , there is also an indication that he played for bedfordshire or oxfordshire , before either had a county cricket club .
his family was large and he had 8 other siblings .
he was educated in his hometown at bedford modern school , where he played for the school cricket team .
rogers made his debut for bedfordshire in the 1911 minor counties championship against hetfordshire .
he continued to play minor counties cricket for bedfordshire after the first world war , appearing for the county until 1924 .
1923 saw rogers make his debut in first-class cricket for glamorgan against northamptonshire in the county championship .
on debut , rogers scored 4 runs in the glamorgan first-innings , before being dismissed by albert thomas , while in the second-innings he scored an unbeaten 16 .
he bowled 5 overs in the match , without taking a wicket .
he played a further first-class match in 1923 , against lancashire .
in this match , he scored 12 runs in glamorgan 's first-innings , before being dismissed by lawrence cook , while in the second-innings he was run out for 14 .
with the ball , rogers claimed his only first-class wicket , that of lancashire captain jack sharp .
rogers only played 2 first-class matches for glamorgan , and upon leaving bedfordshire at the end of the 1924 season , he joined oxfordshire , for whom he played minor counties cricket for sporadically between 1925 and 1935 .
at some point during his life , he married a woman called nellie wilson .
rogers died at pateley bridge , yorkshire on 9 october 1975 .
his death was not afforded an entry in the 1976 `` wisden cricketers ' almanack '' .
