Timothy Abell
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Full name | Timothy George Abell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Lahore, Punjab, British India | 29 April 1930||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 9 March 2009 Basingstoke, Hampshire | (aged 78)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 27 April 2014 |
Timothy George Abell (29 April 1930 – 9 March 2009[1]) was an English cricketer and field hockey player.
The son of the cricketer George Abell, Abell was born at Lahore while his father worked as a civil servant in the British Raj. He was educated in England at Marlborough College, before undertaking studies at the University of Oxford. He played hockey for Oxford, winning a blue. He later played hockey for Middlesex and England.[2] He made one appearance in first-class cricket for the Free Foresters in 1954 against Cambridge University at Fenner's.[3]
His brother John Abell and great-uncle Ted Sale both played first-class cricket.
References
[edit]- ^ "Deaths". The Times. No. 69583. London. 14 March 2009. p. 96.
- ^ "Player profile: Timothy Abell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Timothy Abell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
External links
[edit]- Timothy Abell at ESPNcricinfo
- Timothy Abell at CricketArchive (subscription required)
Categories:
- 1930 births
- 2009 deaths
- Cricketers from Lahore
- People educated at Marlborough College
- Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- English male field hockey players
- English cricketers
- Free Foresters cricketers
- Field hockey players from Lahore
- English cricketers of 1946 to 1968
- Abell family
- English cricket biography, 1930s birth stubs