Stanley Tattersall Banham (21 September 1913 – 29 December 1984) was an English

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and

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who played for

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. He was born in

Sharneyford Sharneyford is a hamlet in Lancashire, England, on the A681 road between Bacup and Todmorden Todmorden ( ; ) is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is north-east of Manch ...

Bacup Bacup ( , ) is a town in the Rossendale Borough in Lancashire, England, in the South Pennines close to Lancashire's boundaries with West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. The town is in the Rossendale Valley and the upper Irwell Valley, east ...

and died in

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. Banham, who played for Bacup in the Lancashire League for seven seasons, made a single first-class appearance for Lancashire during the 1939 season, against the touring

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. He did not bat or bowl in the match, and took just a single catch, his victim being

Derek Sealy James Edward Derrick Sealy (11 September 1912 – 3 January 1982) was a Barbadian cricketer who played in 11 Tests for West Indies The West Indies is an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Banham, Stanley 1913 births 1984 deaths English cricketers Lancashire cricketers People from the Borough of Rossendale 20th-century English sportsmen