deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor bowling country death_place club fivefor batting fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 90 15 december 2008 1 1 / & ndash ; 1937 & ndash ; 1938 2011 18 june 1919 & ndash ; right-arm medium england nottinghamshire , england nottinghamshire & ndash ; right-handed walter gerald yates warsop , nottinghamshire , england first-class http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/23555.html cricinfo 1919 6 18 yes 69 1 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 6 walter yates -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

walter yates -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

walter gerald yates -lrb- 18 june 1919 -- 15 december 2008 -rrb- was an english cricketer .
yates was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace .
he was born at warsop , nottinghamshire .
yates made his first-class debut for nottinghamshire against leicestershire in 1937 county championship .
he made five further first-class appearances for the county , the last of which came against kent in the 1938 county championship .
in his six first-class appearances , he scored 69 runs at an average of 9.85 , with a high score of 19 .
he took a single first-class wicket , that of essex captain denys wilcox .
yates served during world war ii with the royal air force volunteer reserve , serving by november 1942 with the rank of corporal .
by april 1934 , yates held the rank of pilot officer .
it was in this month that he was dismissed from service by way of a general court-martial .
however , as the war effort was short of pilots , he was demoted and served as a spitfire pilot in burma with the county of durham squadron until the end of the war .
he died in nottinghamshire on 15 december 2008 .
