Ken Cranston

Ken Cranston

Infobox Historic Cricketer


nationality = English
country = England
country abbrev = Eng
name = Ken Cranston
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Right-handed batsman (RHB)
bowling style = Right arm medium
tests = 8
test runs = 209
test bat avg = 14.92
test 100s/50s = 0/0
test top score = 45
test balls = 1010
test wickets = 18
test bowl avg = 25.61
test 5s = 0
test 10s = 0
test best bowling = 4/12
test catches/stumpings = 3/0
FCs = 78
FC runs = 3099
FC bat avg = 34.82
FC 100s/50s = 3/18
FC top score = 156*
FC balls = 11688
FC wickets = 179
FC bowl avg = 27.84
FC 5s = 10
FC 10s = 1
FC best bowling = 7/43
FC catches/stumpings = 46/0
debut date = 5 July
debut year = 1947
last date = 27 July
last year = 1948
source = http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PLAYERS/ENG/C/CRANSTON_K_01000783/

Kenneth Cranston, (20 October 1917 - 8 January 2007) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and England for only two years, in 1947 and 1948. He retired from playing cricket to concentrate on his career as a dentist.

Cranston was born in Aigburth, Liverpool, where his father Henry Selby Cranston was a dentist. Ken and his elder brother Ronald were educated at Liverpool College, but Ronald died aged 23 after showing early cricketing talent. Ken played for the Lancashire 2nd XI in the Minor Counties Championship before the Second World War. He served as a dental officer in the Royal Navy during the war. He played cricket for the Royal Navy and Combined Services, and played club cricket in Lancashire after the war. He also played hockey for the county.

Cranston was appointed as captain of Lancashire in 1947, replacing Jack Fallows. He made his first-class debut on 14 May as captain of Lancashire, in the match against Oxford University. He was an all-rounder who bowled fast-medium and batted in the middle of the batting order. He was immediately successful in first-class cricket, and made his Test cricket debut in the 3rd Test against South Africa at Old Trafford on 5 July, less than 8 weeks after his first-class debut. In the 4th Test at Headingley, he took four wickets in six balls (w.w.ww) to end the South African second innings.

He was selected as vice-captain of the relatively weak MCC side that toured to West Indies in 1947-48. He captained England once, in the first Test against the West Indies at Bridgetown, as Gubby Allen had pulled a muscle on board the boat carrying them there. The match was drawn, but England ended up losing the four-match series 2-0. He was dropped from the Test side at the start of the following summer, but played one final Test later in 1948, when he was selected for the 4th Test in the Ashes series against the Invincibles, in which the tourists scored 404 on the final day to win the match.

Cranston led Lancashire to 3rd place in the County Championship in 1947, with the team losing only one march. The team was 5th in 1948. Cranston himself scored over 1,000 runs in each year and took 84 and then 79 wickets. He also played in two Gentlemen v. Players matches in 1947, at Lord's and Scarborough, and again at Lord's in 1948. He resigned as captain of Lancashire at the end of his second season to concentrate on his dental practice in Liverpool. He played for the North of England against the South in 1947, 1949 and 1950, and played his last first-class match in 1950. He was president of Lancashire CCC in 1993-94, and was a president of the Lancashire Former Players' Association. He practised as a dentist in Aigburth until 1990.

He married twice. He first married Mary Joyce Harrison in 1942. They had a daughter and a son, but were divorced in 1964. He married Joanne Legg later that year; they had a son.

He became the oldest living former English Test cricketer on 28 December 2006, on the death of Norman 'Mandy' Mitchell-Innes. Following his own death 11 days later in Southport, that distinction passed to Arthur McIntyre.

References

*cricinfo|ref=ci/content/player/10862.html
* [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/275931.html England's oldest surviving Test cricketer dies] , Cricinfo, 9 January 2007
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=OS5EZ3RABNBXNQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/01/10/db1001.xml Obituary] , "The Daily Telegraph", 10 January 2007
* [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2177948.ece Obituary] , "The Independent", 23 January 2007
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2568044,00.html Obituary] , "The Times", 27 January 2007
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2032393,00.html Obituary] , "The Guardian", 13 March 2007


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