Sidney Bollon (3 December 1899 – 26 October 1986) was an English first-class cricketer. Shortly after the conclusion of the First World War, Bollon played first-class cricket for a Demobilised Officers cricket team against a combined

Army and Navy cricket team The Army and Navy cricket team was a cricket team formed from the combination of the British Army and the Royal Navy, with its players being selected from either of these branches of the British Armed Forces. The team first appeared in a first ...

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in 1919. He bowled 23.1

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in the Army and Navy first-innings, taking figures of 5 for 59. In the Demobilised Officers first-innings, he was dismissed for 9 runs by

Nigel Haig Nigel Esme Haig (12 December 1887 – 27 October 1966) was a first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex County Cricket Club, Middlesex and England cricket team, England. Tall, stringy and deceptively frail in appearance, Haig played regula ...

. He followed up his five wickets in the Army and Navy first-innings by taking the wicket of John Tasker. In 1920 he began working for the railways, later holding the position of publicity officer for the British Transport Commission. He worked for the railways until 1962. He died at Tavistock in October 1986.

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* 1899 births 1986 deaths People from Edmonton Cricketers from the London Borough of Enfield English cricketers Demobilised Officers cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1890s-stub