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 In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ...

. 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 Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other Eng ...

. Between 1921, and 1940, John played for

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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bell, John 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