Albert Ivan Payton (20 January 1898 – 27 September 1967) was an English

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er. Payton was a right-handed

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who bowled right-arm

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. He was born in Stapleford,

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. Payton made a single first-class appearance for

against

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at Lod Trafford in the

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. He scored 15 runs in Nottinghamshire's first-innings of 226 all out, before being dismissed by

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, while in their second-innings of 62 all out, he was dismissed for a single run by Lawrence Cook. Lancashire won Payton's only first-class appearance by an innings and 108 runs. He died at

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on 27 September 1967. His brother Wilfred Payton, Sr. and nephew Wilfred Payton, Jr. both played first-class cricket.

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