Royal Air Force cricket team

Royal Air Force cricket team

The Royal Air Force cricket team is a cricket side representing the British Royal Air Force. The team played 11 first-class matches: nine between 1922 and 1932, mostly against other branches of the Services, and another two in 1945 and 1946. Their home ground is the Royal Air Force Sports Ground, Uxbridge. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Grounds/11/808.html | title=Royal Air Force Sports Ground, Uxbridge| accessdate=2007-12-11 | publisher=CricketArchive]

A number of notable cricketers played for the RAF team in its first-class days. Their side for the first such game, against Rest of England at Eastbourne in September 1922, included no fewer than eight current or future Test cricketers: Jack Hobbs, Wally Hardinge, Frank Woolley, Percy Fender, Harold Gilligan, George Geary, Charlie Parker and Abe Waddington (though none of them was currently serving in the RAF). [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/10/10647.html | title=Royal Air Force v Rest of England in 1922 | accessdate=2007-05-27 | publisher=CricketArchive] However after this festival game, the RAF did not play another first-class match for five years.

Douglas Bader's only match of first-class cricket came for the RAF against the Army at The Oval in 1931. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/13/13945.html | title=Army v Royal Air Force in 1931 | accessdate=2007-05-27 | publisher=CricketArchive]

Since the 1940s, the RAF side has continued to compete in minor cricket.

See also: Combined Services cricket team.

References

External links

* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/cgi-bin/ask_the_scorecard_oracle.cgi Scorecard Oracle] on CricketArchive


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