deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 0 25 march 1953 1 13/0 1927 -- 1928 1929 2008 21 january 1908 0 england narborough , leicestershire , england worcestershire leicestershire 0 right-handed john king john william king leicester , england first-class http://cricketarchive.co.uk/archive/players/30/30783/30783.html 1908 1 21 yes 1,169 0 0/5 48 john william king

john william king

john william king -lrb- 21 january 1908 -- 25 march 1953 -rrb- was an english cricketer who played 48 first-class matches for worcestershire and leicestershire in the late 1920s .
he was the nephew of another john king , who played one test for england , and the son of james king , who played first-class cricket for leicestershire .
king made his debut in may 1927 , for worcestershire against sussex at hove , scoring 7 and 0 .
he remained in the side , but did not make a really sizeable contribution until his 12th innings , when he struck 91 -lrb- which was to remain his highest score -rrb- against essex at leyton .
he ended the season with disappointing figures of 386 runs in 31 first-class innings , at an average of 13.78 .
in 1928 , king did rather better , and indeed his 629 runs at 19.06 , with three half-centuries , represented easily the best season 's return of his short career .
he passed a thousand runs for his career in late august , when he hit an unbeaten 50 against warwickshire at new road .
however , in four further innings before the end of the season he never made more than 2 , and for 1929 he switched counties to leicestershire .
king 's one season with the county of his birth was not a success .
he averaged a mere 11.84 , and apart from one innings of 56 against derbyshire in mid-july , his highest score all season was 23 .
by the end of july he was playing for the second xi in the minor counties championship , a position whence he never re-emerged .
he did appear in two single-innings games for the county during the second world war , but did not bat in either .
