Dick Lilley

Dick Lilley

Lilley at the wicket
Personal information
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
International information
National side	English
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	First-class
Matches	35	416
Runs scored	903	15597
Batting average	20.52	26.30
100s/50s	-/4	16/77
Top score	84	171
Balls bowled	25	2324
Wickets	1	41
Bowling average	23.00	36.21
5 wickets in innings	-	1
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	1/23	6/46
Catches/stumpings	70/22	715/196
Source: [1],

Arthur Frederick Augustus ("Dick") Lilley (November 28, 1866, Holloway Head, Warwickshire – November 17, 1929, Sandy Park, Bristol) was an English cricketer who played in 35 Tests from 1896 to 1909, more than any other England wicket-keeper in the first sixty years of Test cricket.

The conservative cricket establishment of the time was not effusive in its appreciation of this great keeper mainly because he broke with the tradition of standing up to the faster bowlers as was practised by all the great keepers till then.^{[citation needed]} He did so on the advice of W. G. Grace who, on seeing him standing up to Tom Richardson, the legendary England fast bowler, suggested that he would "do better by standing back", which Lilley did for the rest of his career.^{[citation needed]}

He was renowned for his cricketing knowledge, and advised English captains. However, he once started to set the field without consulting his county skipper, Frank Foster, 23 years his junior, who told him there and then to mind his own business. Foster later advised the Warwickshire committee to drop him.^{[citation needed]} Lilley last played for Warwickshire in July 1911, and the county went on to win the championship that year.

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Name	Lilley, Dick
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Short description
Date of birth	November 28, 1866
Place of birth
Date of death	November 17, 1929
Place of death