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Max Raison

Max Raison
Personal information
Full name Maxwell Raison
Born (1901-11-17)17 November 1901
Wanstead, Essex, England
Died 26 July 1988(1988-07-26) (aged 86)
Theberton, Suffolk, England
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Domestic team information
Years Team
1928–1930 Essex
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 17
Runs scored 451
Batting average 18.04
100s/50s –/1
Top score 57
Balls bowled 920
Wickets 14
Bowling average 41.07
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match
Best bowling 5/104
Catches/stumpings 6/–
Source: Cricinfo, 10 October 2011

Maxwell Raison (7 November 1901 – 26 July 1988) was an English cricketer. Rasion was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Wanstead, Essex and educated at Forest School, Walthamstow.

Raison made his first-class debut for Essex against Oxford University in 1928. He made sixteen further first-class appearances, the last of which came against Yorkshire in the 1930 County Championship. In his seventeen first-class appearances for Essex, he scored 451 runs at an average of 18.04, with a high score of 57. This score, which was his only first-class fifty, came against Hampshire in 1928. With the ball, he took 14 wickets at a bowling average of 41.07, with best figures of 5/104. These figures, which were his only first-class five wicket haul, came against Gloucestershire in 1928, including the wicket of Wally Hammond who had scored 244 runs.

He was publisher and managing editor of Picture Post and New Scientist.

He died at Theberton, Suffolk on 26 July 1988 leaving five sons, one of whom was Timothy Raison.


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