Ashley Harvey-Walker
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| Full name | Ashley John Harvey-Walker | |||
| Born | 21 July 1944 East Ham, London, England |
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| Died | 28 April 1997 (aged 52) Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa |
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium/offbreak | |||
| Role | Batsman, later all-rounder | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1971–1978 | Derbyshire | |||
| First-class debut | 23 June 1971 Derbyshire v Oxford University | |||
| Last First-class | 18 July 1978 Derbyshire v Worcestershire | |||
| List A debut | 20 June 1971 Derbyshire v Lancashire | |||
| Last List A | 13 August 1978 Derbyshire v Middlesex | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | List A | ||
| Matches | 81 | 91 | ||
| Runs scored | 3186 | 1829 | ||
| Batting average | 23.95 | 22.03 | ||
| 100s/50s | 3/19 | –/8 | ||
| Top score | 117 | 84 | ||
| Balls bowled | 2352 | 418 | ||
| Wickets | 34 | 9 | ||
| Bowling average | 33.82; | 34.22 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 1 | – | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 1 | – | ||
| Best bowling | 7/35 | 4/37 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 31/– | 29/– | ||
| Source: CricketArchive, 28 April 2010 | ||||
Ashley John Harvey-Walker (21 July 1944 – 28 April 1997) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1971 to 1978. He was shot dead in a Johannesburg bar.
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[edit] Hundred on Debut
Harvey-Walker was born at East Ham, London. He joined Warwickshire and played for the second XI team. He moved to Derbyshire in 1967 where he also played in the second XI. In the 1971 season he made his first team debut. He became the first Derbyshire cricketer to score a century on his debut scoring an unbeaten 110 against Oxford University at Burton-on-Trent.[1][2]
[edit] Later career
Harvey-Walker struggled to hold down a regular place in a weak batting side. His best season was 1974 when he scored 727 runs at 25.96, and also scored over 400 List 'A' runs. During the 1975 season a match at Buxton in June took place after a highly unseasonal snowstorm. Harvey-Walker came out to bat and surprised square leg umpire Dickie Bird by asking him to look after his false teeth, wrapped in a handkerchief, because he wouldn't be in for long.[3]
Not regarded as a regular bowler much beforehand, he was regularly employed when selected in the 1978 season, taking 10-82, including 7-35 in the second innings against Surrey on the notoriously uncertain wicket at Ilkeston.[4] Despite playing in the Benson and Hedges Cup Final he was not re-engaged at the end of the season in a general clearout by the County.[5]
Harvey-Walker was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break and medium-pace bowler. Early in his career he played purely as a top order batsman.[6]
[edit] Murder
On 28 April 1997, at the age of 52, Harvey-Walker was murdered.
While he was attending a bar in Johannesburg, a gunman walked in, called out Harvey-Walker's name, and shot him when he responded.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ Derbyshire vs. Oxford University, 23-25 June 1971
- ^ Hundred in first match for Derbyshire
- ^ Bird still foxed by day snow stopped play Daily Telegraph 22 Jun 2005
- ^ Wisden 1979
- ^ 1979 Derbyshire Yearbook
- ^ Ashley Harvey-Walker at Cricket Archive
- ^ "Death by Misadventure" by P Thorn & K.Bartlett. In ACS Journal 2006-8
