Allan Graham Liddell (2 May 1908 – 17 February 1970) was an English cricketer who played for

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from 1927 to 1934. He was born and died in

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. He appeared in 91 first-class matches as a right-handed

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who

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right arm slow. He scored 2,355 runs with a highest score of 120 and took nine

wicket In the sport of cricket, the term wicket has several meanings: * It is either of the two sets of three Stump (cricket), stumps and two Bail (cricket), bails at each end of the Cricket pitch, pitch. The Fielding (cricket), fielding team's playe ...

s with a best performance of four for 59.https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30992/30992.html Allan Liddell at CricketArchive] His son,

Alan Liddell Alan William George Liddell (8 August 1930 – 9 February 1972) was an English cricketer. Liddell was a right-handed Batsman (cricket), batsman who bowled right-arm Seam bowling, medium pace. The son of Allan Liddell, who played first-cla ...

, also played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire.

Notes and references

*S Canynge Caple (compiler). "Liddell, (Alan)". The Cricketers' Who's Who. Lincoln Williams (Publishers) Ltd. Adam Street, Adelphi, London. 1934. Pages 101 and 102. 1908 births 1970 deaths English cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers 20th-century English sportsmen {{england-cricket-bio-1900s-stub