This is a list of cricketers who played
first-class matches for the
Royal Navy cricket team
The Royal Navy Cricket Club is a cricket team representing the British Royal Navy and based at the United Services Recreation Ground, Portsmouth, Hampshire. The club was formed in 1863, although cricket is recorded as having been played by seamen ...
. The side played a total of 21 first-class matches between 1912 and 1929, most frequently playing the
Army
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side which it met 14 times in top-level matches, all of which were played at
Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket List of Test cricket grounds, venue in St John's Wood, Westminster. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex C ...
. The side played the
Royal Air Force
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three times in first-class matches between 1927 and 1929 and also played first-class matches against
Cambridge University
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,
MCC and, in 1927, against the
touring New Zealanders. Royal Navy cricket teams continue to play organised matches in the modern era, but none have held official status since 1929.
A
combined Army and Navy team played three first-class matches between 1910 and 1919 and the
Combined Services
The Combined Services cricket team represents the British Armed Forces. The team played at first-class level in England for more than forty years in the mid-twentieth century. Their first first-class match was against Gentlemen of England at Lo ...
side played 63 first-class matches between 1920 and 1964.
First-class matches played by Combined Services (England)
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-06-09. Players who appeared in first-class matches for those sides are not included on this list unless they also played for the Royal Navy in a first-class match.
A
* Cecil Abercrombie
* William Agnew
* Cyrus Ainsworth
* Edward Aylmer
B
C
D
* Jack Dale
* Cyril Douglas-Pennant
E
* Eric Elstob
* Alfred Evans
* Harold Evans (cricketer)
* Martin Evans (cricketer)
* Charles Evan-Thomas
G
H
I
* Philip Irwin
J
* Thomas Jameson
* Selwyn Jephson
K
* Derek Kenderdine
L
* William Leach
* Charles Lewin
* George Hamilton D'Oyly Lyon
Admiral Sir George Hamilton D'Oyly Lyon (3 October 1883 — 19 August 1947) was a distinguished Royal Navy officer as well as an English sportsman who played cricket at first-class level and played rugby union at international level for Englan ...
M
* Michael McMaster
* High Montgomery
* John Murray
O
* Hugh Orr
P
* Herbert Annesley Packer
Admiral Sir Herbert ("Bertie") Annesley Packer KCB, CBE (9 October 1894 – 23 September 1962) was an officer in the British Royal Navy and ended his career as an Admiral and Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic.
Family background
The only son o ...
* Edwin Pain
* Manfred Palmes
* John Pelly
Sir John Henry Pelly, 1st Baronet, DL (31 March 1777 – 13 August 1852) was an English businessman. During most of his career, he was an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), serving as Governor of the HBC for three decades. He held ...
* Arnold Pomfret
R
* Arnold Reading
Major-General Arnold Hughes Eagleton Reading (3 April 1896 – 4 January 1975) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Marines officer. He served in the Royal Marines from 1914–1946, rising to the rank of major-general, in addition ...
* Basil Reed
* Kenneth Robinson
S
T
* Alpin Thomson
Alpin Erroll Thomson (14 May 1893 – 6 March 1960) played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club and the Royal Navy Cricket Club in 1922 and 1923. He also played international rugby union for Scotland. He was born in Perth, ...
* Frederick Trumble
* Gerald Tuck
W
* Geoffrey Webb
Geoffrey Fairbank Webb CBE (9 May 1898 – 17 July 1970) was a British art historian, Slade Professor of Fine Art and head of the Monuments and Fine Arts section of the Allied Control Commission during World War II.
Early life
Webb was born in ...
* Arthur Wood
* Arthur Wright
See also
* List of British Army first-class cricketers
* List of Combined Services (United Kingdom) cricketers
* List of Royal Air Force first-class cricketers
References
{{Lists of English cricketers
Royal Navy
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