Eric Bryant (cricketer)
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| Full name | Leonard Eric Bryant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 June 1936 Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 November 1999 (aged 63) Brent Knoll, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm orthodox spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1958-1960 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 31 May 1958 Somerset v Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 29 July 1960 Somerset v Derbyshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 6 Jul 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Leonard Eric Bryant, born at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset on 2 June 1936 and died at Brent Knoll, Somerset on 28 November 1999, played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1958 and 1960.
A left-handed lower order batsman and a slow left-arm spin bowler whose action was allegedly modelled on that of Tony Lock,[1] Bryant played 15 matches for the Somerset side that finished third in the County Championship in 1958, equalling the best-ever finish by the county to that time. He took only 25 wickets, but that included five in an innings – five for 64 – against Worcestershire to win the match where Australian Colin McCool made his highest score in English cricket.[2] Wisden noted that Bryant "showed promise".[3]
However, he played only a handful matches in the drier summer of 1959 and in his first first-class game of 1960, against Gloucestershire at Bath, he was no-balled five times by umpire Hugo Yarnold for throwing.[4][5] Though he reappeared in two further matches that summer without incident, he was not re-engaged by Somerset at the end of the season and did not appear again in first-class cricket.
References
- ^ David Foot and Ivan Ponting. Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who (1993 ed.). Redcliffe Press. p. 19. ISBN 1-872971-23-7.
- ^ "Worcestershire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 9 July 1958. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
- ^ "Somerset in 1958". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1959 ed.). John Wisden. p. 512.
- ^ "Somerset v Gloucestershire". www.cricketarchive.com. 4 June 1960. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
- ^ "Somerset in 1960". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1961 ed.). John Wisden. p. 540.