Tom Richmond (cricketer)

Infobox Historic Cricketer


nationality = English
country = England
country abbrev = ENG
name = Tom Richmond
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Right-hand bat
bowling style = Legbreak googly
tests = 1
test runs = 6
test bat avg = 3.00
test 100s/50s = -/-
test top score = 4
test balls = 114
test wickets = 2
test bowl avg = 43.00
test 5s = -
test 10s = -
test best bowling = 2/69
test catches/stumpings = -/-
FCs = 252
FC runs = 1644
FC bat avg = 9.96
FC 100s/50s = -/2
FC top score = 70
FC balls = 48048
FC wickets = 1176
FC bowl avg = 21.22
FC 5s = 90
FC 10s = 19
FC best bowling = 9/21
FC catches/stumpings = 39/-
debut date = 28 May
debut year = 1921
last date = 28 May
last year = 1921
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/19402.html

Thomas Leonard "Tich" Richmond (born June 23 1890 in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, died December 29 1957 in Saxondale, Nottinghamshire) was a cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire and England.

A small and somewhat rotund leg-break and googly bowler, Richmond played a few matches for Nottinghamshire before the First World War, but came to the fore in the years after it, taking 100 wickets and more every season from 1920 to 1926. His best year was 1922 when he took 169 wickets, then a Nottinghamshire record, later overtaken by Bruce Dooland. His career then faded rather fast, and he dropped out of the county side after 1928.

Richmond's one Test match was on his home ground of Trent Bridge against the all-conquering Australian cricket team of 1921 led by Warwick Armstrong. He scored six runs in two innings and took two wickets for 86 runs, but was never chosen again.

Richmond's batting was rarely of any account, and, like his fielding, suffered as he got older and stouter. But in 1922, against Derbyshire at Worksop, he scored 70 in 65 minutes, putting on 140 for the tenth wicket with Sam Staples.