Eddie Paynter England (Eng)
Batting style	Left-handed batsman (LHB)
Bowling type	Left arm medium (LM)
	Tests	First-class
Matches	20	352
Runs scored	1,540	20,075
Batting average	59.23	42.26
100s/50s	4/7	45/95
Top score	243	322
Balls bowled	0	3,105
Wickets	N/A	30
Bowling average	N/A	45.70
5 wickets in innings	N/A	0
10 wickets in match	N/A	0
Best bowling	N/A	3-13
Catches/Stumpings	7/0	160/0
Test debut: 15 August 1931 Last Test: 25 July 1939 Source: [1] (http://content.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/18475.html) Edit this template

Edward Paynter (5 November 1901 - 5 February 1979) was an English cricketer: an attacking batsman and excellent fielder. His Test batting average of 59.23 is the fifth highest of all time, and second only to Herbert Sutcliffe amongst Englishmen; against Australia alone Paynter averaged an extraordinary 84.42. Large sized chicken tender of England/St Georges Cross/State flag of Guernsey, 1936-1985 File links The following pages link to this file: The Ashes Arsenal F.C. Cornwall Cambridgeshire Charlton Athletic F.C. City of London London Borough of Croydon Cheshire Chelsea F.C. Devon England Essex... The English cricket team is a national cricket team representing England and Wales. ... File links The following pages link to this file: Hansie Cronje Curtly Ambrose David Gower Mike Atherton Colin Cowdrey Courtney Walsh Anil Kumble Garfield Sobers M. J. K. Smith Graham Thorpe Harbhajan Singh Geoffrey Boycott Ted Dexter Graham Gooch Glenn McGrath Alan Knott Len Hutton C. B. Fry Wally Hammond... Cricket batsman A batsman in the sport of cricket is a player whose speciality in the game is batting. ... In the sport of cricket there are two categories of bowler: pace bowler and spin bowler. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Batting average is a statistic in both baseball and cricket measuring the performance of baseball hitters and cricket batsmen, respectively. ... This article is about the cricket term. ... Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket. ... This article is about the cricket term. ... An innings, or inning, is a segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably baseball and cricket – during which a side takes its turn to bat. ... This article is about the cricket term. ... In the sport of cricket, the term stump has three different meanings: part of the wicket, a manner of dismissing a batsman, and the end of the days play (stumps). Part of the wicket The stumps are three vertical posts supporting the bails to form a wicket at each... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... Batting average is a statistic in both baseball and cricket measuring the performance of baseball hitters and cricket batsmen, respectively. ... Herbert Sutcliffe (born November 24, 1894, Summerbridge, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England; died January 22, 1978, Cross Hills, Yorkshire, England) was arguably the greatest opening batsman in cricket history and undoubtedly one of the greatest players of any type the game has known. ...

Born in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, Paynter did not make his first-class debut for Lancashire County Cricket Club until the relatively advanced age of 24 in July 1926. He made a slow start to his career, however, not establishing himself as a first-team player until 1930 and only scoring his first century in July of the following year, making exactly 100 against Warwickshire in his 48th first-class match. He scored 102 against the touring New Zealanders in the very next game, and in August made his Test debut against the same opposition. However, the match was ruined by rain, with no play possible on the first two of the game's scheduled three days, and Paynter made just three in his only innings. Lancashire (archaically, the County of Lancaster) is a county palatine of England, lying on the Irish Sea. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Lancashire County Cricket Club is a first-class cricket club based at Old Trafford cricket ground, Manchester External links Official Lancashire County Cricket Club website Categories: Cricket stubs | English first class cricket teams ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Warwickshire County Cricket Club is a cricket club (team) based in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England (Birmingham historically being part of Warwickshire). ...

Perhaps the most famous of his Test appearances came against Australia, on the "Bodyline tour" of 1932/33. At Brisbane Paynter was taken to hospital suffering from tonsillitis, yet with England in difficulty at 216/6 in reply to Australia's 340, came out to bat. After spending the night in hospital, he made his way to 83 and helped his team to an unlikely first-innings lead, and though he only fielded for a couple of hours, returned for the second innings and had the honour of hitting the winning runs - with a six off McCabe. Paynter averaged a fine 61.33 over his five innings on this tour. Jack Fingleton evades a Bodyline ball. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Brisbane by night Brisbane is the capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia. ... The Palatine tonsils. ... The English cricket team is a national cricket team representing England and Wales. ...

Paynter was then out of the England side for a time, but in 1937 his county form - 2,904 runs and a five-hour triple century against Sussex brought him a recall against New Zealand, as well as Wisden Cricketer of the Year recognition in the next year's Almanack. In 1938 Paynter had another outstanding series against Australia, averaging 101.75 and hitting 216 not out at Nottingham, at the time a record for Ashes Tests in England. He also filled in very competently as wicket-keeper for Les Ames when the latter was injured at Lord's. Paynter was again very successful the following winter against South Africa, scoring three centuries and two fifties in eight innings, including 243 at Durban, to average 81.62. 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... In the UK, County cricket is the domestic form of the sport of cricket that is considered to be first-class cricket. ... Sussex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major counties which make up the English domestic cricket structure. ... The Wisden Cricketers of the Year award is made annually in the pages of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack yearbook. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nottingham is a city located in Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England. ... The Ashes urn The Ashes is a biennial Test cricket contest played between England and Australia. ... A wicket keeper in characteristic position, ready to face a delivery. ... The Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground Lords Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in St Johns Wood in London. ... Durban is a vibrant cosmopolitian city in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. ...

The Second World War brought an effective end to Paynter's career, though he did play a few special and festival games after the war. His final first-class innings was 75 not out for a Commonwealth XI against the Bombay Governor's XI in 1950/51; he then stood for one season (1951) as a first-class umpire. He died at the age of 77 in Keighley, Yorkshire. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Flag of the Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations is an association of independent sovereign states, most of which are former colonies once governed by the United Kingdom as part of the British Empire. ... This article or section should be merged with Mumbai Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is the worlds most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... An umpire in cricket is a person who has the authority to make decisions on the cricket field, according to the Laws of Cricket. ... Keighley (pronounced ) is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, north west of Bradford, on the meeting point of the River Aire and the River Worth. ... Yorkshire as a traditional county. ...

External links

Player Profile: Eddie Paynter (http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/18475.html) from Cricinfo Cricinfo is one of the largest cricket-related websites. ...