George Ulyett
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| Full name | George Ulyett | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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21 October 1851 Pitsmoor, Yorkshire, England |
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| Died | 18 June 1898 (aged 46) Pitsmoor, Yorkshire, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm fast (roundarm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 11) | 15 March 1877 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 23 July 1890 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1873–1893 | Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 1 October 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Ulyett (21 October 1851, Sheffield – 18 June 1898, Sheffield) was an English all-round cricketer, noted particularly for his very-aggressive batsmanship. A well-liked man (who, in later years, kept a pub in his native Sheffield), Ulyett was popularly known as "Happy Jack", once musing memorably that Yorkshire played him only for his good behaviour and his whistling. A fine all round sportsman, Ulyett played football in the 1882–83 and 1883–84 seasons as goalkeeper for Sheffield Wednesday.
Born in Pitsmoor, Sheffield, Ulyett joined the local Pitsmoor club at the age of sixteen and, from 1871 to 1873, played as a professional in Bradford. In 1873, he made his Yorkshire debut, at Bramall Lane against Sussex, and remained a valued member of the team for the next twenty years, passing 1,000 runs in ten seasons and fifty wickets in three. In his best batting year of 1883 Ulyett achieved the remarkable feat of scoring 1,562 runs – eleven runs from being the leading run scorer – without a single century. Not until Charles Harris in 1935 did any batsman score more runs without a century, and only David Green in 1965 – a somewhat similar style of hard hitting opener – has since come remotely so close to being the leading run scorer of a season without scoring a century. He took his career-best figures of seven for thirty against Surrey in 1878 and, in 1887, made his highest score, 199 not out against Derbyshire.
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