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
1615 66696 2 1 / - 334 / - 1924 - 22 legbreak english - 101 right-hand bat dick tyldesley 1930 tests first-class true 28 june http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/21637.html 28 june 47 6419 1924 19 1509 11 july - / - 1/15 7 397 dick tyldesley

dick tyldesley

dick tyldesley -lrb- richard knowles tyldesley born 11 march 1897 , westhoughton , lancashire , died 17 september 1943 , bolton , lancashire -rrb- was a lancashire cricketer who was one of the most important figures in lancashire breaking yorkshire 's stronghold on the county championship between 1926 and 1930 .
he was the youngest of four brothers who all played for lancashire , but were unrelated to the worsley family that produced the two famous brothers johnny and ernest tyldesley .
dick first played for lancashire in 1919 and , with dean out of form and cook still in the army , gained a regular place as a slow bowler .
though he kept a perfect length and could flight the ball extremely well , at this early stage tyldesley had so little spin that he was not a deadly force on sticky wickets .
he also showed promise as a hard-hitting batsman and demonstrated his ability as a close-catching field .
by 1921 , he was one of the leading bowlers for lancashire , and in 1922 , gaining more spin on the ball on sticky wickets , dick tyldesley took 100 first-class wickets .
he also hit up 105 against nottinghamshire at old trafford and remarkably was lancashire 's fourth-highest run-scorer - though with less than half the aggregates of ernest tyldesley , hallows and makepeace .
it was from 1923 , however , that he leaped to the top of the tree though increasing his finger spin to make him a deadly bowler on the many sticky pitches found in the north .
he took 140 wickets that year , and in 1924 - a summer so wet that only one lancashire match was played throughout on a pitch `` un `` affected by rain - he was consistently deadly except against the most exceptionally skilled batsmen .
his record that summer won him a place on the ashes tour of 1924/1925 , but he was a dreadful failure on the cast-iron australian wickets where the ball came straight through .
his wickets for the whole tour cost `` 41 runs apiece '' - a remarkable contrast to his record in england !
however , at home tyldesley maintained his form as a bowler exceptionally well , and after a slight lapse in 1927 and 1928 he was back at his best in 1929 , heading the bowling averages and invariably proving unplayable after showers in a very dry summer .
with australian paceman ted mcdonald , tyldesley formed a bowling combination that was sufficient to give lancashire a hat-trick of championship wins between 1926 and 1928 : during these three years mcdonald took 484 wickets and tyldesley 303 - though tyldesley actually had a better average .
as a batsman , though , dick tyldesley declined to the point of only making two fifties after 1926 .
in 1930 tyldesley took 121 wickets for under 15 each and played a vital role in lancashire 's fourth championship in five years .
he was recalled to the test side with only moderate success , but remained lancashire 's leading bowler in 1931 .
unfortunately , that was to prove his last season of county cricket because of a dispute with the committee .
he played for some years in the lancashire league , as professional for haslingden -lrb- 1932 -rrb- , east lancashire -lrb- 1933 -rrb- , accrington -lrb- 1934 -- 35 -rrb- and lowerhouse -lrb- 1936 -rrb- and was then landlord of the dog and pheasant pub at wingates , westhoughton .
he played one more first class match , for sir l parkinson 's xi v leicestershire , at blackpool , in 1935 .
often viewed as overweight , he died at the young age of forty-six in 1943 .
