Charles Mayo (cricketer)
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Charles Thomas Worsfold Mayo (5 February 1903 – 10 April 1943) was a Canadian-born British
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er who played six first-class matches for
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in 1928. Educated at
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, where he was in the cricket team alongside
Gubby Allen Sir George Oswald Browning "Gubby" Allen CBE (31 July 190229 November 1989) was a cricketer who captained England in eleven Test matches. In first-class matches, he played for Middlesex and Cambridge University. A fast bowler and hard-hitting ...
, Mayo was a right-handed batsman who featured in the Somerset middle order in six matches in the early part of the 1928 season. He made 35 and 60, his highest score, in his first match against
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at Trent Bridge. And in the next game, against
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at
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, he made 48. But he was not successful in his other games and did not appear in first-class cricket again. He was killed during the North African campaign in the
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