Brian Hall (16 September 1929 – 27 February 1989) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er, who played a single first-class match for

Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other Eng ...

, against the

Marylebone Cricket Club Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket retaining considerable global influence ...

(MCC) at

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, in the early part of the 1952 season. A right arm medium fast bowler, he opened the bowling and took the single wicket of

Maurice Tremlett Maurice Fletcher Tremlett (5 July 1923 – 30 July 1984) was an English cricketer, who played for Somerset, Central Districts and England. For a couple of years in the late 1940s, Tremlett looked as though he might be the answer to some of Engl ...

. Batting at number 11 he scored 4 and 10, as Yorkshire collapsed to an innings defeat. He also caught Freddie Brown off the bowling of

Brian Close Dennis Brian Close, (24 February 1931 – 13 September 2015) was an English first-class cricketer. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England, ...

. Hall also played for the Yorkshire Second XI from 1952 to 1956. Born in

Morley Morley may refer to: Places England * Morley, Norfolk, a civil parish * Morley, Derbyshire, a civil parish * Morley, Cheshire, a village * Morley, County Durham, a village * Morley, West Yorkshire, a suburban town of Leeds and civil parish * M ...

, he died in February 1989 in

Doncaster Doncaster (, ) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the larger City of Doncaster. It is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Doncaster is situated in ...

, Yorkshire.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Brian English cricketers Yorkshire cricketers 1929 births 1989 deaths Cricketers from Morley, West Yorkshire