Colin Fairservice

Colin Fairservice (6 August 1909 – 29 December 1999) was an English cricketer who played for Kent from 1929 to 1933, for Marylebone Cricket Club from 1934 to 1936, for Middlesex in 1936 and for the Players in 1931. Fairservice appeared in 74 first-class matches as a right-hand batsman who bowled right-arm off-break. He scored 1650 runs, with a highest score of 110, and took 18 wickets.[1] He was born in Hadlow, Kent, and died Canterbury, Kent.

Fairservice coached cricket at The King's School, Canterbury until the 1970s. He coached, amongst others, England captain David Gower.[2] His father, Bill Fairservice, played more than 300 first-class games for Kent between 1902 and 1921.

Notes

  1. ↑ Colin Fairservice at CricketArchive
  2. ↑ Gower D (2014) An Endangered Species, Simon & Schuster, pp.42–43. (Available online. Retrieved 2016-11-15).


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