Arnold Read (24 January 1880 – 20 May 1957) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

er. He played for

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

between 1904 and 1910. His son,

Hopper Read Holcombe Douglas "Hopper" Read (28 January 1910 – 5 January 2000) was an English cricketer who played in one Test in 1935. Biography Read, who received his nickname from the eccentric leap in his long run-up was regarded as the fastest bowle ...

, also played for Essex and made one Test appearance for England, in 1935.

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* 1880 births 1957 deaths English cricketers Essex cricketers Sportspeople from the London Borough of Redbridge Cricketers from Greater London People from Essex (before 1965) {{England-cricket-bio-1880s-stub