Harry Pilling (23 February 1943 – 22 September 2012) 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. Standing just tall he had the distinction of being the shortest English professional cricketer of modern times.
A right-handed
batsman, Pilling scored over 15,000
first-class runs for
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly.
The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
, whom he played
county cricket
Inter-county cricket matches are known to have been played since the early 18th century, involving teams that are representative of the historic counties of England and Wales. Since the late 19th century, there have been two county championship ...
for from 1962 to 1982.
One of his most memorable innings for Lancashire was an unbeaten 70 against
Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
, which helped secure his county's first
Gillette Cup success in 1970.
References
External links
The Guardian obituary*
1943 births
2012 deaths
Cricketers from Ashton-under-Lyne
English cricketers
Lancashire cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
D. H. Robins' XI cricketers
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