deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor bowling death_place club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
66 29 april 1976 1 0 / & ndash ; 1925 & ndash ; 1947 2010 25 march 1898 & ndash ; right-arm fast-medium temple ewell , kent , england derbyshire & ndash ; right-handed lionel blaxland lionel bruce blaxland lilleshall , shropshire , england first-class http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/27/27951/27951.html cricketarchive 1898 03 25 yes 483 0 0/2 19 lionel blaxland

lionel blaxland

lionel bruce blaxland -lrb- 25 march 1898 -- 29 april 1976 -rrb- was an english first world war flying ace , cricketer , schoolmaster and clergyman .
he played first-class cricket intermittently for derbyshire between 1925 and 1947 .
blaxland was born in lilleshall , shropshire and was educated at shrewsbury school where he was in the cricket xi from 1914 to 1916 .
during world war i , he was a lieutenant flying with 40 squadron rfc .
after the war he attended oxford university where he played at wing half for oxford university in 1920-21 and also played for the corinthians .
he became a master at repton school in 1922 where he was in charge of cricket for eleven years .
blaxland made his debut for derbyshire in the 1925 season , in august in a match against northamptonshire .
he played two more matches in 1925 and did not return to derbyshire until the 1932 season .
he was primarily a club cricketer and played mostly for the friars and other club sides .
he played for derbyshire only in the month of august , during school holidays , between 1932 and 1935 .
his best score was 64 against warwickshire in the 1933 season .
after the second world war in the 1947 season , blaxland reappeared for derbyshire in his final first-class match , against the south africans , when he led the side and kept wicket .
his career finished when he lost an eye playing for the cryptics in portugal .
blaxland was a right-hand batsman and played 31 innings in 19 first class matches with an average of 16.10 and a top score of 64 .
he was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and bowled 11 overs in the first class game without taking a wicket .
he was described as `` a fine club cricketer who hit hard and often , hooking anything short of a length with great power .
as a bowler he was tireless , and always alert and sharp in the field . ''
blaxland retired from repton in 1958 and took holy orders .
he became rector of tansley and then vicar of doveridge .
blaxland died at temple ewell , kent at the age of 78 .
he is the great-uncle of former kent and derbyshire player james graham-brown .
