Reg Sinfield
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Reginald Albert Sinfield (1900–1988) was an Gloucestershire cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s.
Sinfield played one Test in the twilight of his career in 1938, where he is best remembered for having Don Bradman as his first Test victim. However, he had a long career with Gloucestershire prior to achieving higher representative honours, during which his steadiness provided a contrast with the attacking style of cricket provided by batsmen like Hammond and Barnett or bowlers like Goddard.
Sinfield was born on 24 December 1900 at Benington, Hertfordshire.
He played his initial first-class match for MCC as early as 1921, but his potential was not noticed until 1924, when he began qualifying by residence for Gloucestershire. He was able to play for them in county championship matches in 1926, and showed an ability as a solid opening batsman for them in two innings of over a hundred. In the following years, Sinfield established himself as Gloucestershire's regular opening bat with Alf Dipper and after that player retired in a well-contrasted partnership with Barnett. He also developed as an accurate bowler of slow-medium off-cutters, much quicker and less flighty than Goddard. Though he did not accomplish anything remarkable, Sinfield was very consistent and reached a thousand runs every year from 1927 until 1935, in the process carrying his bat through an innings on five occasions – the most significant being when he scored 161 not out in a total of 374 against Oxford University in 1931.
Sinfield's skill as a bowler was slower to blossom because Charlie Parker and Goddard could do almost everything that was required until the end of 1931. Although he took ninety wickets for under twenty apiece in 1930, it was not until 1934 that Sinfield became recognised as a bowler of class. In that year, he headed the Gloucestershire averages and when the pitch helped him could be formidable indeed, as he showed with thirteen wickets against Nottinghamshire and eight for 40 against Leicestershire. The following year, despite the county's other batsmen declining, Sinfield had his best season with the bat, largely because he increased his range of scoring strokes without losing his defensive strength. In August that year he made his highest score, 209 not out against Glamorgan at Cardiff – and followed that up with a haul of nine wickets for 103.
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