deliveries columns catches/stumpings year tenfor bowling country fivefor batting name lasttestyear column international testdebutdate source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
- 293 2 2 / - 50 / - 1929 - - - english - - right-hand bat tom killick 1929 tests first-class true 15 june http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/15882.html 15 june 81 5730 1929 - 3 29 june - / - 15/26 2 92 tom killick

tom killick

edgar thomas killick -lrb- 9 may 1907 , fulham , london -- 18 may 1953 , northampton -rrb- was an english cricketer who played in two tests in 1929 .
tom killick was a right-handed batsman who generally either opened the innings or went in at the fall of the first wicket .
educated at st paul 's school , he played a few matches for middlesex as a 19-year-old in 1926 before going to cambridge university .
unimpressive in the university cricket side 's trial match in 1927 , he was picked for middlesex against the university team and scored 94 and an unbeaten 42 : he was then chosen for the next few university matches but , apart from an 80 that drew comment from wisden cricketers ' almanack for slow scoring , did little and failed to win a blue .
he played regularly for middlesex in the second half of the season .
the following season , 1928 , he failed again in two early games for cambridge and again turned to middlesex , scoring 82 in his second match for the county .
given a further trial at cambridge , he scored 100 against surrey and 161 against sussex , finishing top of the university averages and winning a blue .
in the 1928 season as a whole , he scored 1231 runs , at an average of 38 .
in 1929 , killick had his most successful season and his only taste of test cricket .
england 's selectors experimented with young players in the first two matches of the 1929 series against south africa , and killick was picked to partner herbert sutcliffe as an opener .
in the first match , at edgbaston , he scored 31 and 23 in a game that ended as a rather more even draw than england had expected .
at lord 's , he scored just 3 and 24 as the match was again drawn and he was dropped as england ended the experiment with youth and brought back frank woolley and ted bowley , a move that helped bring success in two of the remaining three tests .
killick scored 1384 runs at an average of 44 runs per innings in 1929 , but played only one first-class match -- gentlemen v players at lord 's -- after the end of the cambridge season .
the next year , 1930 , he again played through the cambridge season , making 903 runs at an average of 47 , but then did not appear again .
across the 1930s , as he first studied for the anglican priesthood and then worked for the church , he played infrequent first-class cricket , not appearing at all between 1934 and 1938 .
he reappeared in one match for free foresters in 1946 , but that was his last first-class game .
as an ordained anglican priest , he was a chaplain at harrow school and later a vicar near letchworth .
he served in west africa as an army chaplain in the second world war and then became vicar of bishop 's stortford .
he died from a heart attack , while playing in an inter-diocesan cricket match between clergy from the st albans and coventry dioceses , aged 46 .
