Richard James Langridge (13 April 1939 – 3 January 2005) was an English

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er who played for

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from 1957 to 1971. He was the son of the English Test cricketer

James Langridge James Langridge (10 July 1906 – 10 September 1966) was an English cricketer who played for Sussex and England. He played in eight Test matches between 1933 and 1946. Cricket writer Colin Bateman noted: "a great servant of Sussex, Jim Langrid ...

, who also played for Sussex. Langridge was a tall left-handed opening batsman who had particular success in the early 1960s, making 1675 runs in 1961 followed by 1885 runs in 1962. He made the highest of his five first-class

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against

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in 1963, when he

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for 137

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in a Sussex total of 222.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Langridge, Richard 1939 births 2005 deaths English cricketers Sussex cricketers Cricketers from Brighton Combined Services cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers 20th-century English sportsmen