lastagainst deliveries death_date lastdate debutyear columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling debutagainst tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting image name fullname debutfor birth_place column debutdate nickname source type lastyear runs date wickets lastfor s/s matches article_title
ireland balls 6,206 22 august 2004 9 september 1932 1 17/0 1932 -- 1935 1935 1943/44 1952 2007 17 january 1912 right-arm medium leicestershire 0 england kelsall , cheshire , england oxford university worcestershire europeans mcc 3 right-hand cricket_no_pic . png antony legard antony ronald legard oxford university sialkot , punjab , india fc 11 may loopy http://cricketarchive.co.uk/archive/players/13/13920/13920.html cricketarchive.com first-class 1952 234 1912 1 17 y 93 mcc 0/0 36 antony legard

antony legard

antony ronald legard -lrb- 17 january 1912 -- 22 august 2004 -rrb- , nicknamed loopy , was an indian-born english cricketer who played 36 first-class matches , mostly for oxford university in the 1930s .
he also played twice for free foresters and had one match each for worcestershire , the europeans in india and mcc .
legard made his first-class debut for oxford against leicestershire at the university parks in may 1932 ; he took four wickets , including that of alan shipman in both innings .
he played consistently that season , including against the south americans -lrb- on their only first-class tour -rrb- when he scored 38 , the only time he ever passed 20 .
later in the year he was selected for the varsity match against cambridge university at lord 's , where he took six wickets in a drawn match .
legard played for much of the 1933 season , but was not selected for the varsity match , and did not appear at all in 1934 .
however , 1935 saw him once again picked for the lord 's game , and once again perform excellently : he obtained career-best figures of 7 -- 36 in the second innings with what his `` wisden '' obituary called a `` devastating '' opening spell of swing bowling .
even so , a powerful cambridge side won the game by a wide margin .
that game marked his last appearance for oxford , but less than a fortnight later he played his one and only county championship match , appearing for worcestershire at northampton .
he took no wickets , but his 18 from number eleven in the first innings was a useful contribution to worcestershire 's eventual 30-run victory .
the remainder of legard 's first-class career consisted of four matches spread over almost a decade : one for europeans against hindus in the bombay pentangular -- the europeans were thrashed by an innings and 209 runs , but legard claimed four wickets -- two appearances for free foresters against cambridge university , and finally -lrb- aged 40 -rrb- a one-off appearance for mcc against ireland in dublin .
