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Batting style
  
Right-hand bat

Role
  
Cricket Player

Name
  
Reg Simpson


National side
  
England

Education
  
Nottingham High School

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Full name
  
Reginald Thomas Simpson

Born
  
27 February 1920 (
1920-02-27
)
Sherwood, Nottingham, England

Test debut (cap 341)
  
16 December 1948 v South Africa

Last Test
  
25 March 1955 v New Zealand

Died
  
November 24, 2013, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Bowling style
  
Right-arm off break

Reginald Thomas Simpson (27 February 1920 – 22 November 2013) was an English cricketer, who played in 27 Tests from 1948 to 1955.

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Life and career

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Born in Sherwood, Nottingham, England, Simpson attended Nottingham High School. At the age of 13, having participated in an opening partnership of 467 with Henry Betts in a house game, Simpson was selected for the High School first team. He first gave notice of his abilities at a higher level scoring 134 not out for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club against the RAF at Trent Bridge in 1940. During the war he served as a pilot with the RAF but also took the opportunity to play cricket for the RAF alongside the likes of Wally Hammond and Bill Edrich, for the Europeans in India alongside Joe Hardstaff junior and Denis Compton and occasional games for Notts.

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Following the war Simpson made an immediate impression on the game, and was picked for the 1948–49 tour of South Africa on which he played his first Test, without success. He returned to the England side in the middle order against New Zealand in 1949, and scored a century, but with Len Hutton and Cyril Washbrook embedded as England's first choice openers, he could not secure a regular place in the side.

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Simpson was named one of the Five Cricketers of the Year by Wisden in 1950. He toured Australia for the 1950-51 Ashes series and made 349 runs (38.77), second only to Hutton in the England averages. He made 156 not out on his 31st birthday in the fifth and final Test. This innings was the finest of his career, first adding 131 with Hutton and making 64 out of a stand of 74 for the last wicket, to put England 103 runs ahead, and gave them their first victory against Australia since 1938. It was the highest score of his Test career, and he also made his highest first-class hundred of 259 against the Sheffield Shield champions, New South Wales. He returned for the 1954-55 Ashes series under Hutton, but played in only one Test.

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He was a fearless and effective player of fast bowling, but had a habit of getting out to spin bowlers, who he regarded with contempt. He assumed the captaincy of a frail Nottinghamshire side in 1951, and held the position for a decade despite nagging injuries. His county remained largely unsuccessful despite his efforts as skipper, and amassing over 30,000 runs in his career. Simpson scored 64 centuries in all. He topped the national batting averages in 1962, with 867 runs at 54.18, and retired after the 1963 season.

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After retiring from playing cricket, Simpson served on the Nottinghamshire committee and was a director of Gunn and Moore. On the death of Alec Bedser on 4 April 2010, Simpson became the oldest surviving England Test cricketer.


Reg Simpson Reg Simpson obituary Sport The Guardian

References

Reg Simpson Wikipedia