Richard Mitchell (cricketer, born 1913)
Appearance
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Full name | Richard William Gordon Lewis Mitchell | ||||||||||||||
Born | 27 February 1913 British Grenada | ||||||||||||||
Died | 13 January 1988 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | (aged 74)||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast medium | ||||||||||||||
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1935 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 4 July 2020 |
Richard William Gordon Lewis Mitchell (27 February 1913 – 13 January 1988) was a Grenadian-born Trinidadian first-class cricketer.
Born on the Caribbean island of Grenada in February 1913, Mitchell later studied in England at Keble College at the University of Oxford.[1] While studying at Oxford, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against a combined Minor Counties cricket team at Oxford in 1935.[2] Returning to the Caribbean after graduating from Oxford, later playing two first-class matches against British Guinea in 1938 for a team led by Rolph Grant.[2] Grant later moved to Trinidad where he died at Port of Spain in January 1988.
References
[edit]- ^ "Player profile: Richard Mitchell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
- ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by Richard Mitchell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 July 2020.