deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls -- 13 september 1986 1 8 / -- 1970 -- 1971 1965 -- 1967 2011 29 october 1939 -- england carlisle , cumberland , england cumberland essex -- left-handed roger wilfred wrightson elsecar , yorkshire , england first-class occasional wicket-keeper http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22528.html cricinfo 1939 10 29 yes 332 -- -- / 1 12 roger wrightson

roger wrightson

roger wilfred wrightson -lrb- 29 october 1939 -- 13 september 1986 -rrb- was an english cricketer .
wrightson was a left-handed batsman who occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper .
although born in elsecar , yorkshire to frederick liddell wrightson and jessie arline hague , wrightson was raised in essex where his family moved to when his father took up a teaching position in the county .
it was in grays that he was educated at palmer 's school , going from there to loughborough university .
his father first introduced wrightson to cricket when he was a child , according to wrightson had made him , along with his brothers bat as left-handers .
prior to playing county cricket he became a primary school teacher in thurrock .
he eventually made his debut for essex in a first-class match against oxford university in 1965 , with him making nine further first-class appearances in the 1965 season .
against warwickshire that season at clacton , wrightson scored 84 runs , which was to be his only first-class half century .
later that season when playing against yorkshire he had his two front teeth knocked out by a bouncer delivered by fred trueman .
he made no appearances for essex in 1966 , with his teaching career taking precedence .
he did appear in two first-class matches in the 1967 season against derbyshire and hampshire , and was at the end of that season offered a new contract by essex , but decided to not to accept the offer .
in his brief first-class career , wrightson scored 332 runs at an average of 20.75 .
he and his wife audrey , who was an art teacher , moved to cumberland shortly thereafter .
he played in the minor counties championship for cumberland , making his debut for the county in 1970 against the yorkshire second xi .
he played for cumberland in 1970 and 1971 , making nine minor counties championship appearances .
wrightson died at carlisle , cumberland on 13 september 1986 , aged 46 .
he was survived by his wife audrey , son michael and daughter anna .
