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 role source type lastyear runs date wickets lastfor s/s matches article_title
derbyshire balls 2288 28 november 1999 29 july 1958 1 10 / - 1958-1960 2008 2 june 1936 left-arm orthodox spin sussex - england brent knoll , somerset , england somerset 1 left-handed batsman eric bryant leonard eric bryant somerset weston-super-mare , somerset , england first-class 31 may bowler http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/3/3459/3459.html cricketarchive first-class 1960 133 1936 6 2 yes 34 somerset - / - 22 eric bryant -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

eric bryant -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

leonard eric bryant , born at weston-super-mare , somerset on 2 june 1936 and died at brent knoll , somerset on 28 november 1999 , played first-class cricket for somerset between 1958 and 1960 .
a left-handed lower order batsman and a slow left-arm spin bowler whose action was allegedly modelled on that of tony lock , bryant played 15 matches for the somerset side that finished third in the county championship in 1958 , equalling the best-ever finish by the county to that time .
he took only 25 wickets , but that included five in an innings -- five for 64 -- against worcestershire to win the match where australian colin mccool made his highest score in english cricket .
wisden noted that bryant `` showed promise '' .
however , he played only a handful matches in the drier summer of 1959 and in his first first-class game of 1960 , against gloucestershire at bath , he was no-balled five times by umpire hugo yarnold for throwing .
though he reappeared in two further matches that summer without incident , he was not re-engaged by somerset at the end of the season and did not appear again in first-class cricket .
