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 source type lastyear runs date wickets lastfor s/s matches article_title
lancashire balls 708 1974 18 june 1935 1 2/0 1935 & ndash ; 1948 2007 11 january 1916 slow left arm orthodox middlesex 0 england dudley , worcestershire , england worcestershire 1 left-hand cricket_no_pic . png leonard oakley leonard oakley worcestershire stourbridge , worcestershire , england fc 26 june http://cricketarchive.co.uk/archive/players/31/31775/31775.html cricketarchive first-class 1948 43 1916 1 11 yes 12 worcestershire 0/0 8 leonard oakley

leonard oakley

leonard oakley -lrb- 11 january 1916 -- 1974 -rrb- was an english cricketer who played eight first-class games for worcestershire either side of the second world war .
exclusively a bowler , in 14 innings he never scored more than 11 .
oakley made his debut for worcestershire against middlesex at worcester in late june 1935 , taking the single wicket of fred price and scoring 6 and 0 from number ten .
he played against gloucestershire a few days later , taking one more wicket , and made two wicketless appearances in 1937 , but those games comprised his entire remaining pre-war career .
he returned to first-class action with a bang in june 1946 , taking eight wickets against the royal air force in what was to prove the raf 's last-ever first-class match .
his first innings 2-18 and second-innings 6-64 , which contributed largely towards his county 's victory , were the only times he ever took more than two wickets in a first-class innings .
however , two subsequent county championship games brought oakley only one wicket in total , and he played no more for two years .
in june 1948 , oakley took 5-44 in each innings of a second xi match against glamorgan ii , and was recalled to the first team for the championship match with lancashire at manchester a week later .
however , he could manage only 1-71 from 17 overs , and he never played first-class cricket again .
