John Thomson Bell (16 June 1895 – 8 August 1974) 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. Bell was a right-handed
batsman. He was born in
Batley
Batley is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. Batley lies south-west of Leeds, north-west of Wakefield and Dewsbury, south-east of Bradford and north-east of Huddersfield. Batley is part of the ...
,
Yorkshire.
Between 1921, and 1940, John played for
Yorkshire and the
Glamorgan county cricket club
Glamorgan County Cricket Club ( cy, Criced Morgannwg) is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Glamorgan ( cy, Morgannwg). Founded in 1888, ...
, and the
Welsh national cricket team. Over the course of 184 matches, he scored 8,390, with a batting average of 29.23.
John died on the 8th of August, 1974, aged 79
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1895 births
1974 deaths
Cricketers from Batley
English cricketers
Yorkshire cricketers
Glamorgan cricketers
Wales cricketers
English cricket umpires
H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers