Stanley Metcalfe
Personal information
Full name
Stanley Gordon Metcalfe
Born20 June 1932
Horsforth, Yorkshire, England
Died16 September 2017(2017-09-16) (aged 85)
Alton, Hampshire, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off break
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1954–1956Oxford University
1961Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 27
Runs scored 1,200
Batting average 25.53
100s/50s 2/6
Top score 133*
Balls bowled 668
Wickets 9
Bowling average 39.11
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 2/32
Catches/stumpings 11/–
Source: Cricinfo, 4 June 2019

Stanley Gordon Metcalfe (20 June 1932 – 16 September 2017) was an English first-class cricketer. He played first-class cricket on 27 occasions, mostly for Oxford University and the Free Foresters.

Life and first-class cricket

Metcalfe was born at Horsforth in June 1932 and attended the nearby Leeds Grammar School. From there he went up to Pembroke College, Oxford.[1] While at Oxford he made his debut in first-class cricket for Oxford University against Gloucestershire in 1954 at Oxford.[2] He played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1956, making seventeen appearances.[2] He scored 595 runs in his seventeen matches, an average of 20.51 and a high score of 75.[3] He first played for the Free Foresters in 1958, playing in seven first-class matches for them between 1958–68.[2] It was for the Free Foresters that he made his highest first-class score, with 133 not out against Oxford University in 1959,[4] one of two centuries he made and 543 runs he scored for the Free Foresters.[3] Metcalfe also appeared in one first-class match for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University at Lord's in 1961, as well as two matches for D. R. Jardine's XI in 1958.[2]

After graduating from Oxford, he worked for Rank Hovis McDougall from 1959, later becoming their chairman.[5] He lived out his final years in Alton, Hampshire, before dying in September 2017 following a long illness.[6]

References

  1. ↑ The International Who's Who 1992–93. Taylor & Francis. 1992. p. 1102. ISBN 0946653844.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "First-Class Matches played by Stanley Metcalfe". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  3. 1 2 "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Stanley Metcalfe". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  4. ↑ "Oxford University v Free Foresters, 1959". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  5. ↑ The Shorter Wisden 2019: The Best Writing from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2019. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2019. p. 270. ISBN 978-1472963871.
  6. ↑ "Metcalfe – Death Announcements". The Daily Telegraph. 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
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