John Griffith Raybould (born 26 July 1934) is an English former first-class
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.
Raybould was born at
Normanby in July 1934, and later attended
New College, Oxford
New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as its feeder school, New College is one of the oldest colleges at th ...
.
While studying at Oxford he made his debut in
first-class cricket for
Oxford University against
Yorkshire at
Oxford in 1957.
He made seventeen further appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford University across the 1958 and 1959 seasons.
As a left-handed
batsman he scored 263 runs, with a high score of 81
not out. With his
leg break
Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action. The leg spinner's normal delivery causes the ball to spin from right to left (from the bowler's perspective) when the ball bounces on the ...
googly bowling, he took 30 wickets at an
average of 37.13, with best figures of 4 for 31. He later made a first-class appearance for the
Free Foresters against Oxford University in 1962,
taking four wickets in the match.
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1939 births
Living people
Cricketers from Middlesbrough
Alumni of New College, Oxford
English cricketers
Oxford University cricketers
Free Foresters cricketers
English cricketers of 1946 to 1968