Batting style Left-handed Name Verner Luckin 1910–1912 Hampshire | 1919 Warwickshire Bowling style Leg break googly Role Cricket Player | |
Full name Verner Valentine Luckin Born 14 February 1892 ( 1892-02-14 ) Woking, Surrey, England Died November 28, 1931, High Cross, Hampshire, United Kingdom | ||
Verner Valentine Luckin (14 February 1892 – 28 November 1931) was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman who bowled leg break googly.
Luckin made his first-class debut for Hampshire in the 1910 County Championship against Somerset, where in Somerset's second innings he took 3/39.
Luckin played ten first-class matches for Hampshire up until the end of the 1912 season, with his final first-class match for the county against Middlesex. In his ten matches Luckin had no success with the bat and with the ball he took 13 wickets at a bowling average of 39.46.
After the First World War, Luckin made his debut for Warwickshire against Surrey in the 1919 County Championship. He played nine first-class matches for Warwickshire in the 1919 season, with his final first-class match for the county coming against Worcestershire. Luckin had more success with the bat for Warwickshire, scoring 195 runs at an average of 27.85, with a single half century score of 59* out against Lancashire. With the ball he took eleven wickets at a bowling average of 30.18, with best figures of 3-19.
He died at High Cross, Hampshire on 28 November 1931.