Alan Wright

Who was Alan Wright?

Alan Jack Barton Wright was an English cricketer. Wright was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Semilong, Northamptonshire.

Wright made two first-class appearances for Northamptonshire against Yorkshire in the 1922 County Championship and Nottinghamshire in the 1923 County Championship. In the match against Yorkshire at the County Ground, Northampton, Wright scored a single run Northamptonshire's first-innings, before being dismissed by George Macaulay. In their second-innings he was dismissed for a duck by Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire won the match by ten wickets. In the match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, he was dismissed for a duck in Northamptonshire's first-innings by Frank Matthews, while in their second-innings he scored 3 runs, before being dismissed by the same bowler.

He died at Catford, London on 29 July 1989. His brother, Ronald Wright, also played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire.