Lionel Blaxland

Lionel Blaxland (March 25, 1898 — April 29, 1976) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who played over a 22-year stretch for Derbyshire. Blaxland was born in Lilleshall.

Debuting in the 1925 season, which saw Derbyshire safe, though near the bottom of the table, Blaxland's career was characterized by two extremely long breaks in which he did not play cricket, that being between 1925 and the slightly more successful 1932 season, and a gap of twelve years between his penultimate first-class game, in the 1935 County Championship, which, despite being a year before the heroic County Championship victory, still saw the team finish second in the table, and 1947, when he played his final first-class match, against a team of South Africans, when Blaxland represented Derbyshire as first-class captain and wicket-keeper.

Blaxland was a middle-order batsman and is the great-uncle of former Derbyshire player James Graham-Brown.

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* [http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27951/27951.html Lionel Blaxland] at Cricket Archive