deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings family year birth_date bowling tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting image name fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 223 11 february 1955 1 108/0 father : henry palairet , brother : lionel palairet 1891-1894 1891-1902 2012 25 june 1871 ? 0 england budleigh salterton , devon , england oxford university somerset 0 right-hand richard palairet.jpg richard palairet richard cameron north palairet grange-over-sands , lancashire , england first-class http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/3/3742/3742.html cricket archive 1871 6 25 yes 4000 3 2/20 112 richard palairet

richard palairet

richard cameron north palairet , born 25 june 1871 at grange-over-sands , then in lancashire and died 11 february 1955 at budleigh salterton , devon was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for oxford university and somerset .
after his playing days , he became a prominent cricket administrator , acting as secretary at surrey county cricket club and being joint manager , with pelham warner , of the english cricket team in australia in 1932-33 which became embroiled in the bodyline controversy .
as a cricket player , palairet was overshadowed by his brother , lionel , who played for the same two first-class sides and was regarded as one of the stylish batsmen of the 1890s and the early 1900s .
their father , henry palairet , played first-class cricket twice for mcc in 1868 and 1869 .
richard palairet 's first-class record indicates that he was a useful right-handed batsman , but probably no more than useful : as a schoolboy at repton he had been more successful than lionel , but a soccer injury at oxford restricted his movement and his fluency .
he often opened the innings , though less frequently for somerset , where his brother was ensconced at no 1 , than for oxford .
in 112 first-class matches , he made exactly 4,000 runs at an average of 21 runs per innings ; he scored only two centuries in a career that lasted 12 years .
his highest was 156 against sussex at the county ground , taunton in 1896 when he put on 249 for the second wicket with his brother , who made 154 .
in the 1896-97 winter he was a member of a touring team to the west indies led by arthur priestley ; a second touring side to the west indies that winter was led by lord hawke .
after that tour , his appearances in first-class cricket became less frequent .
palairet played his last first-class match in 1902 , but came back into the game as secretary of surrey from 1920 to 1932 .
he stood down from that post to become joint manager on the bodyline tour .
he was president of somerset county cricket club from 1937 to 1946 .
