lastagainst deliveries death_date lastdate debutyear columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling debutagainst tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname debutfor birth_place column debutdate source type lastyear runs date wickets lastfor s/s matches article_title
cambridge university balls 4123 19 september 1994 10 june 1949 1 26 / - 1949 -- 1952 1950 -- 1952 1955 -- 1967 13 june 1927 left arm orthodox slow bowler essex 0 england colwyn bay , wales cambridge university derbyshire mcc 1 right-handed batsman mike stevenson michael hamilton stevenson cambridge university chinley , derbyshire , england first-class 7 may http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/26/26905/26905.html first-class 1967 2467 1927 6 13 yes 50 mcc 4/14 66 mike stevenson

mike stevenson

michael hamilton stevenson -lrb- 13 june 1927 -- 19 september 1994 -rrb- was a schoolmaster , journalist and cricketer who played for cambridge university , derbyshire , ireland and mcc between 1949 and 1969 .
stevenson was born at chinley , derbyshire and educated at rydal school , colwyn bay , north wales , where he was cricket captain in his last year .
he played various matches for derbyshire in 1945 and 1946 and for staffordshire in 1947 and derbyshire 2nd xi in 1948 .
he went to cambridge university in 1948 and was given a blue in his first season 1949 .
he played regularly for the university for four years appearing in the varsity match each year .
in 1950 against leicestershire stevenson made 109 in a third wicket stand with peter may of 233 .
in 1952 against surrey he made 111 in two and a half hours with two 6s and twelve 4s , and against worcestershire he hit four 6s and six 4s to reach 53 within the hour .
in 1950 and 1952 he played occasional games for derbyshire -- three in 1950 and one in 1952 .
he also played for ireland in 1952 and 1956 on the basis of residential qualification after his parents retired there .
he played for leinster and clontarf over three seasons .
he also started playing for mcc in 1956 , played for derbyshire juniors in 1958 and various matches for ireland until 1964 and mcc until 1969 .
he was a right-hand batsman who played 106 innings in 66 first-class matches with an average of 24.91 and a top score of 122 .
he was a slow left-arm orthodox bowler who took 50 first-class wickets at an average of 37.64 with a best performance of 5 for 36 .
stevenson taught at three public schools .
at pocklington school he ran the cricket and founded the pocklington pixies club which reached the final of the national club championship in their first year .
he gave up teaching for a while and took up journalism and writing on north of england , cricket and rugby .
he wrote two books , `` a history of yorkshire cricket '' and a biography of ray illingworth .
after ten years he returned to rydal to teach english and run the cricket .
stevenson died at colwyn bay shortly after retiring at the age of 67 .
