George Langdale
Cricket Player
1916 – 2002
Who was George Langdale?
George Richmond Langdale was a schoolmaster, writer on mathematics and an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1936 to 1937 and for Somerset from 1946 to 1949. He also played for the minor counties Norfolk and Berkshire.
Langdale was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in Yorkshire. He first played cricket for Derbyshire in the 1936 season taking part in three games and helping them to capture their first and only County Championship victory. In the 1937 season he played one first team game and then for the Derbyshire second team. On 1 September 1938 Langdale became a teacher at the City of Norwich School and during 1939 he played for minor county Norfolk. During the Second World War he played occasional matches including one for Anti-Aircraft Command against Balloon command, and another for the Army against the Royal Australian Air Force.
In 1946 Langdale left Norwich and began playing for Somerset. In his first match for his new county, he took five Warwickshire wickets in an innings for 30 runs and in his next, two months later, against Yorkshire at Taunton, batting at No 8, he scored 146 to enable Somerset to reach 508, though the match was drawn.
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- Born
- Mar 11, 1916
Thornaby-on-Tees - Nationality
- England
- Died
- 2002
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on July 23, 2013
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