Stan Nichols England (Eng)
Batting style	Left-handed batsman (LHB)
Bowling type	Right arm fast (RF)
	Tests	First-class
Matches	14	483
Runs scored	355	17,823
Batting average	29.58	26.56
100s/50s	0/2	20/92
Top score	78 not out	205
Balls bowled	2,565	83,604
Wickets	41	1,833
Bowling average	28.09	21.63
5 wickets in innings	2	118
10 wickets in match	0	23
Best bowling	6-35	9-32
Catches/stumpings	11/0	325/0
Test debut: 10 January 1930 Last Test: 22 August 1939 Source: [1] 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... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... Wikipedia has no licensable picture of this cricketer. ... 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. ... First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, involving either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. ... 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... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Stan Nichols (Morris Stanley Nichols and sometimes called since his death Morris Nichols; born October 6, 1900, Stondon Massey, Essex, England; died 26 January 1961, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England) was the leading all-rounder in English cricket for much of the 1930s. October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Essex is an administrative county in the East of England. ... England is a made up country where psychologists convince schitzofrenic people they are currently living while they are in fact in a mental asylum. ... January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Newark (also Newark-on-Trent) is a town in Nottinghamshire, located on the River Trent. ... Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. ... In the sport of cricket, an all-rounder is a player who is both a good batsman and bowler. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ...

In his youth primarily a soccer goalkeeper who played for some time with Queen's Park Rangers, Nichols' prowess at cricket during the summer brought him to the attention of the Essex committee during the early 1920s, who recommended him as a left-handed batsman. He was engaged for 1924 but did not gain a regular place in the first eleven that year. The following year, however, Nichols gained a regular place as a promising fast bowler and batted very low in the order. He did nothing sensational apart from playing the primary role in dismissing Kent for 43 on a bad wicket at Southend in late July. Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... A goalkeeper leaves his feet to parry a shot on goal In many team sports, a goalkeeper (termed goaltender in some sports) is a designated player that is charged with directly preventing the opposite team from scoring by defending the goal. ... Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. ...

1926, though pitches almost never helped fast bowling, was Nichols' breakthrough year, for he took 114 wickets in first-class cricket and, though he at this point often tried to bowl too fast and was sometimes wayward, his strong build meant he could bowl for long spells with little fatigue. Against Kent on a somewhat difficult wicket, he took ten wickets, whilst in the return with that county, he scored 57 batting at number eleven against Tich Freeman and reminded Essex that he still had the batting ability that had originally grabbed their attention. In 1927 Nichols took 124 wickets for 23 runs each, with several outstanding performances: First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, involving either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. ... Tich Freeman (Alfred Percy Freeman; born May 17, 1888; died January 28, 1965) was a Kent leg spin bowler and the only man to take 300 wickets in an English season. ...

• 9 for 59 against Hampshire at Chelmsford on a fiery pitch.
• 8 for 46 against Derbyshire at Southend.
• 9 for 32 (4 for 12 and 5 for 20) against Somerset at Colchester.

He batted so well that year he scored 940 runs, but though 1928 saw a maiden century against Hampshire his bowling failed so badly that he took fewer than 70 wickets for over 35 runs apiece. 1929, however, saw Nichols establish himself as one of the best all-rounder in cricket. His hard-hitting left-handed batting had become extremely strong in front of the wicket, whilst reducing his pace made his bowling less wayward and more effective. So highly though of was Nichols that the following year he played for England in the Ashes series of 1930 but did little; however, his batting in two Representative Matches (since canonised as Tests) in New Zealand had been excellent. The Ashes is a regular international cricket contest between England and Australia, played every two years, so named after the trophy, which is a small wooden urn, said to contain the burnt bails from an 1882 game between the countries at The Oval. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ...

With Larwood, Bowes and Gubby Allen the first-choice pace bowlers by this time, Nichols had little opportunity in the following years for playing in home Tests or Ashes tours; however his county form, apart from a major decline in his bowling in 1934 due to injury, remained extremely consistent and he was rewarded by a Cricketer of the Year nomination in the 1934 Wisden after his batting and bowling gave Essex their best season since 1897. On the matting wickets of India, his bowling proved highly effective in Engand's first Test tour of that country. 1935, with Larwood and Voce refusing to be considered and Allen having work commitments, gave Nichols his chance to establish himself as an England player, but though he took 6 for 35 against South Africa in the First Test at Trent Bridge, he never proved himself in genuine Test class. That summer, however, saw Nichols produce his best cricket to date with 157 wickets and over 1400 runs in all matches, including an amazing all-round feat in a famous thrashing of Yorkshire at Huddersfield. In ths match, Nichols took 11 for 54 and made 146, and Yorkshire lost by an innings and 204 runs - remarkably they did not lose any other county match that season! Harold Larwood (November 14, 1904 - July 22, 1995) was an English cricket player, an extremely quick and accurate fast bowler best known for his key role as the implementer of leg theory in the infamous Bodyline Ashes Test series of 1932-33. ... Bill Bowes (William Eric Bowes; born July 25, 1908, Elland, Yorkshire, England; died 4 September 1987, Otley, Yorkshire, England) was one of the best bowlers of the inter-war period and for a time the most important force behind Yorkshires dominance of the County Championship. ... Wisden Cricketers Almanack 2005 The Wisden Cricketers of the Year award is made annually in the pages of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack yearbook. ... Wisden is the main publisher of information on cricket in the United Kingdom. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ...

1936 saw Nichols make his only double century against Hampshire, and take 9 for 32 against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, whilst 1937 and 1938 were seasons of consistent achievement culminating in an amazing all-round performance of 159 and fifteen for 163 against Gloucestershire in the latter season. His haul of wickets in 1938 - 171 - surpassed his best and placed him within three of being leading wicket taker in England, whilst continued good form in 1939 saw Nichols obtain a Test recall against the West Indies in the last Test before World War II put a stop to county cricket. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was by far the bloodiest, most expensive, and most significant war in...

When first-class cricket resumed in 1946, Nichols was forty-five and it was clear even his tall, strongly-built body could not withstand a season of county cricket. He played for several years in the Birmingham and District League until his health declined beyond his ability to play even one-day-a-week cricket and he retired to the spa resorts in the English Midlands. He died early in 1961 in Newark. See also spa SPA can refer to: Saudi Press Agency School of Planning and architecture is Indias premier Architecture and city-planning institutions. ...

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