List of Royal Air Force first-class cricketers

From their first match in 1922 to their final match in 1946, 63 players represented the Royal Air Force cricket team in first-class cricket. A first-class match is a domestic cricket match between two representative teams, each having first-class status, as determined by the governing body for cricket in the country where the match is being played.[1] First-class matches consist of matches of three or more days' duration, between two teams of eleven players, played on turf pitches.[1]

The Royal Air Force played seven of their eleven first-class matches at The Oval (pictured).

The Royal Air Force was formed during World War I in 1918, with the Royal Air Force cricket team being formed in 1919 and playing its first against the British Army cricket team at Lord's in the same year.

This list includes all players who have played at least one first-class match and is initially arranged in the order of debut appearance. Where more than one player won their first cap in the same match, those players are initially listed by batting order at the time of debut.

Key

General

  • – Captain
  • – Wicket-keeper
  • First – Year of debut for RAF
  • Last – Year of latest match played for RAF
  • Mat – Number of matches played for RAF

Batting

Bowling

Fielding

  • Ca – Catches taken
  • St – Stumpings effected

List of players
No. Name Nationality First Last Mat Inn Runs HS Avg Balls Wkt BBI Ave Ca St
Batting Bowling Fielding
01Jack Hobbs[2] England1922192211272727.0000––10
02Wally Hardinge[3] England192219221210797107.0000––00
03Alfred Jeacocke[4] England19221922121477.0000––10
04Frank Woolley[5] England192219221216108.00150105/316.6010
05Percy Fender[6] ♠ England1922192212151315.006611/1922.0030
06Harold Gilligan[7] England1922192211111111.00180––20
07Francis Musson[8] England1922192211000.0000––00
08George Geary[9] England1922192211101010.0020463/209.1600
09Charlie Parker[10] England1922192211000.008732/89.0000
10Abe Waddington[11] England1922192211444.00600––00
11Stanley Amor[12] † England192219221111*–00––13
12Edward Northway[13] England19271928361328326.4000––10
13Morton Shapcott[14] England19271932482466835.1400––20
14Charles Blount[15] ♠ England1927193061038311038.30530123/1624.5890
15Gerald Livock[16] † England1927193224984332.6600––31
16Reginald Fulljames[17] England192719328141734714.411,659387/2520.9270
17Ernest Fawcus[18] England192719295829111541.5745384/5125.7540
18Cecil Wigglesworth[19] England1927192711191919.00240––00
19Brian Baker[20] ♠ England192719328133036625.2500––50
20Leslie Bray[21] England192719271111*–00––10
21Peter Utley[22] England1927192833393013.00702113/1821.1830
22Cyril Cooke[23] England192719306851208.501,033237/7621.3040
23Walter Beisiegel[24] ♠ England19281931581725424.5700––40
24Victor Croome[25] † England19281930581243617.7100––64
25Leonard Slatter[26] England192819281111*–720––00
26Cyril Adams[27] England1928193251017346*19.22646113/6233.9040
27Edmund Hudleston[28] England1929193147973813.8500––10
28Charles Steele[29] England19291929231476349.0000––00
29Douglas Macfadyen[30] England19291931241192.7516422/5931.5000
30Leonard Jennings[31] England19291930235545*27.50300––10
31Ronald Sugden[32] England192919302317125.66900––00
32Jack Holmes[33] ♠ England19301932361665927.6633684––20
33Nigel Jerram[34] England19301930117843*78.0000––10
34Tom Pollitt[35] England1931193112201410.0000––20
35Geoffrey Longfield[36] England193119322436269.0021022/5169.0000
36Douglas Bader[37] England1931193112666533.0000––00
37Francis Hodder[38] Ireland19311931111110*–16811/6969.0010
38Holford White[39] England1932193212502525.0000––00
39Colin Boumphrey[40] England1932193212313115.5000––00
40Roy Scoggins[41] England1932193212110.5017255/11222.4000
41Geoffrey Udal[42] England193219321200*–13822/10552.5010
42Cyril Washbrook[43] England1945194512764438.0000––00
43Stan Squires[44] England1945194512763.50240––00
44Bill Edrich[45] England19451945129550*95.009621/3132.0000
45Bob Wyatt[46] ♠ England1945194512575157.0000––10
46George Cox[47] England1945194512363118.0000––00
47Dennis Brookes[48] England1945194511202020.0000––02
48Albert Nutter[49] England1945194511000.0013822/6040.0000
49Syd Buller[50] † England194519451199*–2580––00
50Reg Partridge[51] England194519451100*–10833/4124.3300
51Austin Matthews[52] Wales1945194510–––19853/1815.6600
52Neville Shelmerdine[53] England1945194510–––00––00
53Hugh Sells[54] England1946194612462623.0000––10
54Thomas Thornton[55] England1946194612292314.50480––00
55Don Kenyon[56] England1946194612000.0000––10
56Luke White[57] England1946194612754637.5000––00
57Leo Harrison[58] † England1946194612333016.5000––22
58Brian Trubshaw[59] England1946194612211.0000––00
59Alan Shirreff [60] ♠ England194619461216168.0021664/3917.6600
60Bernard Constable[61] England19461946127156*71.0018655/13126.2020
61Myles Boddington[62] England1946194612232311.50180––10
62William Faulkner[63] England1946194612231811.501440––10
63Norman Gavin[64] England1946194612522952.0020433/7634.0010

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