Tyrell Fabian Johnson (10 January 1917 – 5 April 1985) was a

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international

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er who played in one

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in 1939. Tall and thin, Johnson was a left-arm fast-medium bowler who was picked for the 1939 West Indies cricket tour to England after taking six wickets for 41 runs in a trial match in February 1939. In England, Johnson took a wicket with his first ball of the tour at

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, but was picked for only eight other first-class matches. That included, however, the third Test of the three-match series at

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, where he repeated his instant success by taking the wicket of Walter Keeton with his first delivery. He took two further wickets in the match (

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and

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), but managed only 16 on the tour as a whole, for a high average of 32 runs per wicket. This single Test match was Johnson's last first-class cricket appearance.

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