Evan "Michael" Pearce Hardy (13 November 1927 – 13 January 1994) was an English rugby union player who represented the

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. He also played for the Combined Services, the Army and Yorkshire County. He also played a

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match with the Combined Services and was a member of the MCC and I Zingari (IZ) clubs. Playing as a fly half, India born Hardy was capped three times for England, all in the

1951 Five Nations Championship The 1951 Five Nations Championship was the twenty-second series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the fifty-seventh series of the northern hemisphere ru ...

. Those matches were against Ireland, France and Scotland. Hardy, a right-handed batsman, played some non first-class matches with the

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in 1950. His only first-class appearance came nine years later when he lined up for the Combined Services against

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in Birmingham. He made a duck in his debut innings when he was dismissed by Jack Bannister, with the Warwickshire paceman achieving the rare feat of claiming 10 wickets in an innings. In his second innings he made 15 before falling again to Bannister.

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Cricinfo: Evan Hardy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hardy, Evan Michael 1927 births 1994 deaths English rugby union players Yorkshire County RFU players England international rugby union players English cricketers Combined Services cricketers Combined Services rugby union players British Army cricketers Rugby union fly-halves