Geoffrey Anson
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| Full name | Geoffrey Frank Anson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 October 1922 Sevenoaks, Kent, England |
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| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Hastings, Sussex, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1947 | Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1947 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 10 May 1947 Cambridge University v Essex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 23 August 1947 Kent v Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 15 June 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geoffrey Frank Anson (8 October 1922 – 4 December 1977) was an English cricketer.[1] A right-handed batsman, he played ten first-class matches during the 1947 English cricket season for Cambridge University and Kent.[2] He also represented the Nigeria national cricket team.[3]
Biography
Born at Sevenoaks, Kent in 1922,[2] Geoffrey Anson was educated at Harrow, where he played cricket, and at the University of Cambridge.[4] It was at Cambridge where he made his first-class debut, playing against Essex.[5] Good performances against Yorkshire and Middlesex, against whom he scored 106, his highest first-class score,[2] led to him having his blue almost secure, but commitments with the Colonial Service meant that he missed the match against Oxford University.[4]
Later in the year he played seven County Championship matches for his native Kent, his last first-class match coming against Somerset in August.[5] In April 1949, he played a five-day match for Nigeria against Gold Coast in Lagos.[6] He returned to Kent to play for their second XI between 1957 and 1959[3] and died in Hastings in 1977.[2]
References
- ↑ Cricinfo profile
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 CricketArchive profile
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Teams played for by Geoffrey Anson at CricketArchive
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1979, Obituaries before 1978
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 First-class matches played by Geoffrey Anson at CricketArchive
- ↑ Scorecard of Nigeria v Gold Coast, 6 April 1949 at CricketArchive
