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Reginald Taylor (cricketer)

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Reginald Taylor
Personal information
Full name
Reginald Minshall Taylor
Born(1909-09-30)30 September 1909
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England
Died7 January 1984(1984-01-07) (aged 74)
Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa
BattingRight-handed
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1931 – 1946Essex
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 206
Runs scored 6755
Batting average 20.59
100s/50s 5/27
Top score 193
Balls bowled 4654
Wickets 92
Bowling average 31.88
5 wickets in innings 3
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 7/99
Catches/stumpings 185/0
Source: Cricinfo, 15 January 2017

Reginald Minshall Taylor (30 November 1909 – 7 January 1984) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Essex from 1931 to 1946.

He was the first professional cricketer to win the DFC, for service as an observer in Bomber Command at Dunkirk in 1940.[1]

Dudley Carew said of him:

In the early 'thirties Taylor would have gone down on a short list [of] the most promising young batsmen in England, but somehow he could never get into the habit of making runs consistently. He had a charming cut, and could not make a stroke that was ungraceful, but whether it was some unconscious negligence in his make-up ... or some flaw in his technique, his batting average was a constant disappointment.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Reginald Taylor at CricketArchive
  2. ^ Dudley Carew, To the Wicket, Chapman & Hall, London, 1946, p. 73.
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