Sailor Young

Infobox Historic Cricketer


nationality = English
country = England
country abbrev = ENG
name = Sailor Young
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Right-hand bat
bowling style = Left-arm medium
tests = 2
test runs = 43
test bat avg = 21.50
test 100s/50s = -/-
test top score = 43
test balls = 556
test wickets = 12
test bowl avg = 21.83
test 5s = -
test 10s = -
test best bowling = 4/30
test catches/stumpings = 1/-
FCs = 171
FC runs = 2303
FC bat avg = 11.99
FC 100s/50s = -/4
FC top score = 81
FC balls = 26708
FC wickets = 514
FC bowl avg = 23.37
FC 5s = 27
FC 10s = 4
FC best bowling = 8/54
FC catches/stumpings = 80/-
debut date = 29 June
debut year = 1899
last date = 17 July
last year = 1899
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/23532.html

Harding Isaac "Sailor" Young (born February 5, 1876, Leyton, Essex, died December 12, 1964, Rochford, Essex) was a cricketer who played for Essex and England.

Young was a left-arm medium-pace bowler and a capable lower-order batsman. His bowling achieved considerable turn off the wicket, and was described in Wisden as having "a deceptive curl"Ref|w70. Young's cricketing successes in minor matches led Essex to buy him out of the Royal Navy. He played a few games in 1898, but came to prominence the following year, when he scored more than 600 runs and took 139 wickets. He was picked for two Test matches that season against the Australian touring side and took six wickets in each of them, finishing at the top of the England averages. But he was discarded for the last match of the series and never played Test cricket again.

Young played regularly for Essex for the next four years, but he never took 100 wickets in a season again. By 1903 his wicket tally was down to just 52 and after that season he dropped out of regular cricket, though he continued to play a few matches for Essex and as a member of the MCC ground staff right up to 1912. In 1910-11 he was a member of the MCC team that toured the West Indies.

From 1921 to 1931, Young was a first-class umpire and he officiated in two Test matches in 1924 and 1926.

References

* Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1970 edition, page 1027. Young's death in 1964 went unreported until the 1970 edition of Wisden.