Stuart Boyes
 England (ENG) | ||
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |
| Bowling type | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| First-class record | ||
| Matches | 504 | |
| Runs scored | 8078 | |
| Batting average | 14.95 | |
| 100s/50s | 2/17 | |
| Top score | 104 | |
| Balls bowled | 85860 | |
| Wickets | 1472 | |
| Bowling average | 23.51 | |
| 5 wickets in innings | 74 | |
| 10 wickets in match | 11 | |
| Best Bowling | 9-57 | |
| Catches/Stumpings | 495/0 | |
| First class debut: -, 1921 Last first class game: -, 1939 [1] | ||
George Stuart Boyes (31 March 1899 – 11 February 1973) was an English first class cricketer, born in Southampton, who played for Hampshire.
Boyes was a slow left-arm bowler with a high action, taking 1415 wickets for Hampshire. He took 100 wickets in a season three times, his best year being 111 at 26.75 in 1933. He twice took a hattrick, one of them when he took his career best figures of 9 for 57 against Somerset at Yeovil in 1938. With the bat he took 413 matches before making his maiden century, only three players in history have waited longer.[2] He was an excellent close fielder and took 498 catches in first-class matches, many of them at short-leg.[3]
His major overseas tour was with the MCC to India and Ceylon in 1926/7. He took 56 wickets at 18.69 including 7-52 against a Europeans in the East XI at Eden Gardens, Calcutta.[4][5]
His brother Ken was a professional footballer with Southampton and Bristol Rovers, as well as a member of Hampshire's ground staff.[6]
References
- ^ Profile on www.cricketarchive.com
- ^ Most Matches Before Maiden Century
- ^ Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn and Peter Wynn-Thomas, 'Who's Who of Cricketers (London, 1984), p. 128
- ^ "Stuart Boyes bowling Season by Season at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015".
- ^ "Europeans in the East vs. MCC at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015".
- ^ Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (1992). The Alphabet of the Saints. ACL & Polar Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 0-9514862-3-3.