Richard Evans (cricketer)
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Full name | Richard James Evans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
East London, South Africa | 11 October 1914||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died |
29 May 1943 28) At sea, off Cape Town, South Africa | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm leg-spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1934-35 to 1939-40 | Border | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 20 January 2018 |
Richard James Evans (11 October 1914 – 29 May 1943) was a South African cricketer who played first-class cricket for Border from 1934 to 1940.
Richard Evans was a leg-spin and googly bowler who had a very high career strike-rate: a wicket every 31.48 deliveries.[1] He had an outstanding season in 1937-38 when he was 23. In the first match, against Western Province, he took 5 for 72 and 4 for 92, and Border won by seven wickets.[2] Then, in Border’s innings victory over Eastern Province he took 4 for 50 and 6 for 40.[3] Later, in the victory over Orange Free State, he took 5 for 27 and 2 for 28,[4] and a week after that, in the loss to Transvaal, he took 2 for 29 and 8 for 64.[5] He finished the season with 36 wickets in five matches off 867 balls at a bowling average of 13.11 and a strike-rate of a wicket every 24.08 balls. Only Norman Gordon of Transvaal, with 39 wickets off 1798 balls, took more wickets in the season.[6]
However, Evans's considerable promise was unfulfilled.[7] He played only two more first-class matches before the Second World War, in which he died at sea off Cape Town, aged 28.
References
- ↑ "Richard Evans". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 February 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Western Province v Border 1937-38". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 February 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Eastern Province v Border 1937-38". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 February 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Border v Orange Free State 1937-38". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 February 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Border v Transvaal 1937-38". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 February 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Bowling by average, Currie Cup 1937-38". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 February 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Louis Duffus, "The Past South African Season", The Cricketer, 30 April 1938, p. 21.
External links
- Richard Evans at ESPNcricinfo
- Richard Evans at CricketArchive (subscription required)