James Langridge
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| Full name | James Langridge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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10 July 1906 Newick, Sussex, England |
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| Died | 10 September 1966 (aged 60) Brighton, Sussex, England |
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| Batting style | Left-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Slow left-arm orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Langridge (10 July 1906 – 10 September 1966) was an English cricketer, who played for Sussex and England. He played in eight Tests than spanned either side of World War II.
Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted, "a great servant of Sussex, Jim Langridge played only one Test after the War in a sporadic England career. As a steady left-handed batsman and patient left-arm spinner, his Test opportunities were greatly limited by the presence of Yorkshire's Hedley Verity".
Born in Newick, Sussex, Langridge was an all-rounder who played first-class cricket for almost thirty years, James Langridge – always called by his forename to distinguish him from his younger brother, Sussex opening batsman John Langridge – was a middle-order left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm spin bowler. Initially played by Sussex from 1924 as a batsman, he scored 1,000 runs in an English cricket season twenty times and finished with 31,716 runs and 42 centuries. He ranks as 52nd on the all-time list of run-getters, 11 places behind his own brother.
Langridge developed in the late 1920s as a spin bowler of exceptional accuracy, but lacking in flight. When pitches became treacherous due to rain followed by sunshine, he could be difficult to play and, in six seasons between 1930 and 1937, he took 100 wickets, completing the all-rounder's double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets each time. He headed Sussex' bowling averages in 1933, 1935, 1937 and 1939, but unaccountably failed as a bowler in the wet summers of 1936 and 1938. In 1937, Langridge scored 2,082 runs and took 102 wickets, a feat achieved only once since (by Trevor Bailey in 1959). In the process he set a record by scoring 2,000 runs in a season with only one century. In all, he took 1,530 wickets, which puts him 77th on the all-time list. His 622 appearances for Sussex are a county record. He also played first-class cricket for Auckland in 1927/28.
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