deliveries columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor bowling country club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 1158 1537 2 8 ; / & ndash ; 16 / & ndash 1970 & ndash ; 1973 2014 15 december 1947 0 & ndash ; right-arm medium-pace england middlesex 0 1 right-handed sam black christopher james robert black johannesburg , transvaal , south africa first-class list a http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/27/27924/27924.html cricket archive 1947 12 15 yes 400 465 13 53 0/1 0/1 17 51 sam black -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

sam black -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

christopher james robert `` sam '' black -lrb- born 15 december 1947 in johannesburg , transvaal , south africa -rrb- is a former cricketer who played for middlesex from 1970 to 1973 .
black was an outstanding schoolboy cricketer at stowe school .
in 1966 , his final year , he made 473 runs at an average of 43.00 and took 45 wickets at 9.95 , and was selected to play for the mcc schools xi against combined services at lord 's .
in `` wisden '' 's public schools report , e.m. wellings said black 's `` bowling was too fast for most schoolboys and his striking too vigorous for most opposing bowlers '' .
black played two first-class matches for middlesex in 1970 as a bowler , but failed to take a wicket .
he also played nine matches in the 40-over john player league , taking eight wickets .
his 13 matches in the john player league in 1971 included an outstanding performance against surrey when , in a match reduced by rain to 24 overs a side , he scored 72 not out and took 6 for 25 .
a few days earlier he had hit his only first-class fifty , 71 against hampshire , when he `` thrashed the new ball so fiercely that he scored at well over a run a minute '' .
he appeared in only one first-class match in 1972 , and five in 1973 , but he was a regular player in the john player league , taking 14 wickets at 14.78 in 1972 and eight wickets at 16.62 in 1973 , including 4 for 20 against nottinghamshire .
despite making 609 runs at 35.82 and taking 40 wickets at 15.27 for middlesex second xi in 1973 , he left county cricket after the season .
