Reginald Allen
Cricket Player
1893 – 1950
Who was Reginald Allen?
William Reginald Allen is an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1921 and 1925. All of his first-class games were for Yorkshire. Allen also played forty three Minor Counties Cricket Championship for Yorkshire Second XI.
A huge man with hands to match, he was a capable wicket-keeper and hard-hitting batsman who was reserve to Arthur Dolphin, and was considered the favourite to take over from that player in 1928. However, Arthur Wood was preferred, so Allen continued to play in League cricket, mainly with Castleford Cricket Club for whom he first appeared in 1919.
A Coal Board clerk at Whitwood, he was a prolific run-scorer in League cricket and led Castleford to the Yorkshire Council Championship in 1935.
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- Born
- Apr 14, 1893
Sharlston - Also known as
- William Allen
- Nationality
- England
- Died
- Oct 14, 1950
Normanton
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on July 23, 2013
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