Alan Armitage - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Alan Armitage
- Alan Kenneth Armitage (born 25 January 1930) is an English former first-class cricketer.
- Armitage was a right-handed batsman who occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper.
- He was born at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. Armitage made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire against Warwickshire in the 1950 County Championship.
- He played a further match that season against Hampshire.
- In 1951, he made a single first-class appearance for his home county against Oxford University, where incidentally he himself was also studying.
- In that same season he made two first-class appearances for the university, against the Free Foresters and Leicestershire.
- In the match against the Free Foresters he scored his only first-class century, making 155 runs in the university's first-innings, while in their second-innings he followed this up with an unbeaten 57.
- Two appearances in July in the 1951 County Championship against Somerset and Yorkshire were to be his final first-class appearances.
- Playing against Yorkshire, he was part of a Fred Trueman hat-trick, with the then future England Test cricketer taking the wickets of Reg Simpson, Armitage and Peter Harvey.
- Overall, Armitage scored 348 runs in first-class cricket, which came at an average of 34.80.
