| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | George Stuart Boyes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1899-03-31)31 March 1899 Southampton, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 February 1973(1973-02-11) (aged 73) Southampton, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1921–1939 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1926/27 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: Cricinfo, 15 October 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Stuart Boyes (31 March 1899 – 11 February 1973) was an English first-class cricketer, born in Southampton, who played for Hampshire County Cricket Club.
Boyes was a slow left-arm bowler with a high action, taking 1415 wickets for Hampshire. He took 100 wickets in a season three times, his best year being 111 at 26.75 in 1933. He twice took a hattrick, one of them when he took his career best figures of 9 for 57 against Somerset at Yeovil in 1938. With the bat he took 413 matches before making his maiden century, only three players in history have waited longer. He was an excellent close fielder and took 498 catches in first-class matches, many of them at short-leg.
His major overseas tour was with the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to India and Ceylon in 1926/7. He took 56 wickets at 18.69 including 7-52 against a Europeans in the East XI at Eden Gardens, Calcutta.
During the Second World War, Boyes supervised junior coaching sessions at the County Ground. Following the end of the war in 1945, Boyes was employed as a cricket coach at Ampleforth College from 1946 to 1963. He died in Southampton in February 1973. His brother, Ken, was a professional footballer with Southampton and Bristol Rovers, as well as a member of Hampshire's ground staff.
References
- "Most Matches Before Maiden Century". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn and Peter Wynn-Thomas, 'Who's Who of Cricketers (London, 1984), p. 128
- "Stuart Boyes bowling Season by Season at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015".
- "Europeans in the East vs. MCC at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015".
- Broom, John (2021). Cricket in the Second World War: The Grim Test. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. p. 44. ISBN 9781526780188.
- ^ "Wisden – Obituaries in 1974". ESPNcricinfo. 5 December 2005. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (1992). The Alphabet of the Saints. ACL & Polar Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 0-9514862-3-3.