imported>Jevansen: Copying from Category:English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 to Category:20th-century English sportsmen using Cat-a-lot

2025-01-01T02:46:04Z

Copying from Category:English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 to Category:20th-century English sportsmen using Cat-a-lot

New page

{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2014}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Stuart Boyes
| country = England
| fullname = George Stuart Boyes
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|3|31|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|2|11|1899|3|31|df=yes}}
| death_place = Southampton, Hampshire, England
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = [[Slow left-arm orthodox]]
| role =
| family =
| club1 = [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1921–1939}}
| club2 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]
| year2 = 1926/27
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 504
| runs1 = 8,078
| bat avg1 = 14.95
| 100s/50s1 = 2/17
| top score1 = 104
| deliveries1 = 85,860
| wickets1 = 1,472
| bowl avg1 = 23.51
| fivefor1 = 74
| tenfor1 = 11
| best bowling1 = 9/57
| catches/stumpings1 = 495/–
| date = 15 October
| year = 2024
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/stuart-boyes-9191 Cricinfo
}}

'''George Stuart Boyes''' (31 March 1899 – 11 February 1973) was an English first-class cricketer, born in [[Southampton]], who played for [[Hampshire County Cricket Club]].

Boyes was a slow left-arm bowler with a high action, taking 1415 wickets for Hampshire. He took 100 wickets in a season three times, his best year being 111 at 26.75 in 1933. He twice took a hattrick, one of them when he took his career best figures of 9 for 57 against Somerset at Yeovil in 1938. With the bat he took 413 matches before making his maiden century, only three players in history have waited longer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/Firstclass/Overall/Most_Matches_Before_Maiden_Century.html |title=Most Matches Before Maiden Century |access-date=26 October 2017 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204102/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/Firstclass/Overall/Most_Matches_Before_Maiden_Century.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was an excellent close fielder and took 498 catches in first-class matches, many of them at short-leg.<ref>Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn and Peter Wynn-Thomas, 'Who's Who of Cricketers (London, 1984), p. 128</ref>

His major overseas tour was with the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) to India and Ceylon in 1926/7. He took 56 wickets at 18.69 including 7-52 against a Europeans in the East XI at [[Eden Gardens]], Calcutta.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6499/f_Bowling_by_Season.html|title=Stuart Boyes bowling Season by Season at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12154.html|title=Europeans in the East vs. MCC at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015}}</ref>

During the [[Second World War]], Boyes supervised junior coaching sessions at the County Ground.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYE0EAAAQBAJ|title=Cricket in the Second World War: The Grim Test|first=John|last=Broom|publisher=[[Pen and Sword Books]]|location=[[Barnsley]]|year=2021|page=44|isbn=9781526780188|language=en}}</ref> Following the end of the war in 1945, Boyes was employed as a cricket coach at [[Ampleforth College]] from 1946 to 1963.<ref name="WIS">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228559.html|title=Wisden – Obituaries in 1974|date=5 December 2005 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=15 October 2024}}</ref> He died in Southampton in February 1973.<ref name="WIS"/> His brother, [[Ken Boyes (footballer, born 1895)|Ken]], was a professional [[association football|footballer]] with [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]] and [[Bristol Rovers F.C.|Bristol Rovers]], as well as a member of Hampshire's ground staff.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Alphabet of the Saints|last=Holley|first=Duncan|author2=Chalk, Gary|publisher=ACL & Polar Publishing|year=1992|isbn=0-9514862-3-3|page=42}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyes, Stuart}}
[[Category:1899 births]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Southampton]]
[[Category:1973 deaths]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Hampshire cricketers]]
[[Category:London Counties cricketers]]
[[Category:Players cricketers]]
[[Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers]]
[[Category:English cricketers of 1919 to 1945]]
[[Category:20th-century English sportsmen]]

Stuart Boyes - Revision history

imported>Jevansen: Copying from Category:English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 to Category:20th-century English sportsmen using Cat-a-lot