Eric Sykes (23 June 1906 – 7 December 1989) was an English
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 for
Derbyshire in 1925 and 1932.
Sykes was born in
Bolsover, the son of
Ernest Sykes who had played cricket for
Hampshire. Sykes made his first-class debut for Derbyshire in the
1925 season in June against
Gloucestershire and made 50 in his first innings. In his next match he was at the wicket on 4 when Derbyshire won, but he made little impression in his last match of the season against
Lancashire.
Sykes turned professional after playing as an amateur, but did not get a chance to play as a professional for Derbyshire until the
1932 season.
He then played two matches for Derbyshire and made 27 in the first of them. Sykes was a right-handed batsman and played 10 innings in 5 first-class matches with an average of 11.66 and a top score of 50. He bowled one over at the cost of 2 runs without taking a wicket.
Eric Sykes at Cricket Archive
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Sykes died in Athersley North, Barnsley
Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...
, Yorkshire, at the age of 83.
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1906 births
1989 deaths
English cricketers
Derbyshire cricketers
People from Bolsover
Cricketers from Derbyshire