Stanley Gordon Metcalfe (20 June 1932 – 16 September 2017) was an

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first-class

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er. He played

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on 27 occasions, mostly for

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and the

Free Foresters Free Foresters Cricket Club is an English amateur cricket club, established in 1856 for players from the Midland counties of England. It is a 'wandering' (or nomadic) club, having no home ground. The Free Foresters were founded by the Rev. Wil ...

Life and first-class cricket

Metcalfe was born at

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in June 1932 and attended the nearby

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. From there he went up to

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. While at Oxford he made his debut in

for

against

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in 1954 at

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. He played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1956, making seventeen appearances. He scored 595 runs in his seventeen matches, an

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of 20.51 and a high score of 75. He first played for the

in 1958, playing in seven first-class matches for them between 1958–68. It was for the Free Foresters that he made his highest first-class score, with 133

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against Oxford University in 1959, one of two centuries he made and 543 runs he scored for the Free Foresters. Metcalfe also appeared in one first-class match for the

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against

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at Lord's in 1961, as well as two matches for D. R. Jardine's XI in 1958. After graduating from Oxford, he worked for

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from 1959, later becoming their chairman. He lived out his final years in

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, before dying in September 2017 following a long illness.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Metcalfe, Stanley 1932 births 2017 deaths People from Horsforth People educated at Leeds Grammar School Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford English cricketers Oxford University cricketers Free Foresters cricketers D. R. Jardine's XI cricketers 20th-century English businesspeople