Cyril Ayling

Cyril Ayling

Personal information
Full name	Cyril Edgar Ayling
Born	26 October 1910(1910-10-26) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	13 November 1993(1993-11-13) (aged 83) Argentina
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
Relations	Dennet Ayling (brother) Cecil Ayling (brother)
International information
National side	Argentina
Career statistics
Competition	First-class
Matches	9
Runs scored	200
Batting average	15.38
100s/50s	–/1
Top score	50
Balls bowled	1,362
Wickets	24
Bowling average	28.08
5 wickets in innings	1
10 wickets in match	–
Best bowling	5/48
Catches/stumpings	8/–
Source: CricketArchive, 23 January 2011

Cyril Edgar Ayling (October 1910 - 13 November 1993) was a cricketer who played for Argentina and was a member of the South American cricket team that toured England in 1932. He represented Argentina in three first-class matches against Sir Theodore Brinckman's XI in 1937-38, but also played in non-first-class representational matches for Argentina from 1930 to 1959. He was born in Buenos Aires.

Ayling was a middle-to-lower order right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast medium bowler. On the tour of England in 1932, his batting was not very successful in the six first-class matches, and his highest score was only 34. His bowling was better and he took 19 wickets in first-class games, with a best of five for 48 as he and his brother, Dennet Ayling, bowled the South American team to victory over Sir Julien Cahn's side at Nottingham.^[1] Outside the first-class games, he scored an unbeaten 95 and took five for 72 against MCC at Lord's; his innings averted the follow-on and his victims included Test player Eddie Dawson and former England captain Pelham Warner.^[2]

Against Brinckman's XI in 1937-38, Ayling played alongside Dennet and a third brother, Cecil Ayling. His highest score in three matches came in a rearguard action in the last of the three games, in which all three brothers reached 50 – in Cyril's case, exactly 50. His best bowling, four for 95, also came in this match.^[3]

Cyril Ayling continued to play high-level Argentinian cricket past his 50th birthday.

References

• Cyril Ayling at www.cricketarchive.com contains details of first-class and other matches, complete career statistics and scorecards
• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1933 edition, page 508-520, reports on the South American tour to England in 1932.

Notes

1. ^ "South American Team in England". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1933 ed.). Wisden. pp. p514. 
2. ^ "South American Team in England". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1933 ed.). Wisden. pp. p512. 
3. ^ "Sir Theodore Brinckman's Team in the Argentine". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1939 ed.). Wisden. pp. pp819–823. 

Persondata
Name	Ayling, Cyril
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	26 October 1910
Place of birth	Buenos Aires
Date of death	13 November 1993
Place of death	Argentina