Len Richmond

Thomas Leonard "Tich" Richmond (23 June 1890 – 29 December 1957) was a

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who played for

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and

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. A small and somewhat rotund leg-break and googly bowler, Richmond played a few matches for Nottinghamshire before the

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, but came to the fore in the years after it, taking 100 wickets and more every season from 1920 to 1926. His best year was 1922 when he took 169 wickets, then a Nottinghamshire record, later overtaken by

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. His career then faded rather fast, and he dropped out of the county side after 1928. Richmond's one Test match was on his home ground of

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against the all-conquering

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of 1921 led by

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. He scored six runs in two innings and took two wickets for 86 runs, but was never chosen again. Richmond's batting was rarely of any account, and, like his fielding, suffered as he got older and stouter. But in 1922, against

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, he scored 70 in 65 minutes, putting on 140 for the tenth wicket with Sam Staples. English cricketers England Test cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers People from Radcliffe-on-Trent Cricketers from Nottinghamshire 1890 births 1957 deaths North v South cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-Test-cricket-bio-stub