Frank Tyson
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm fast | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 17 | 244 |
| Runs scored | 230 | 4103 |
| Batting average | 10.95 | 17.09 |
| 100s/50s | -/- | -/13 |
| Top score | 37* | 82 |
| Balls bowled | 3452 | 38173 |
| Wickets | 76 | 767 |
| Bowling average | 18.56 | 20.89 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 4 | 34 |
| 10 wickets in match | 1 | 5 |
| Best bowling | 7/27 | 8/60 |
| Catches/stumpings | 4/- | 85/- |
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Test debut: 12 August 1954 |
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Frank Holmes Tyson (born 6 June 1930 in Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire) was an England cricketer of the mid-1950s. His fast bowling gave him the nickname "Typhoon Tyson", and both Don Bradman and Richie Benaud considered him to be the quickest they had ever seen.
He played 17 Test matches, taking 76 wickets at an outstanding bowling average of 18.56, and was instrumental in helping England retain The Ashes in 1954/55, at Melbourne proving almost unplayable as he recorded a career-best 7-27 in the second innings.
Tyson, whose county cricket was for Northamptonshire, was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1956. But he suffered from injury throughout his career, and he played his last first-class cricket when aged only 30, soon afterwards emigrating to Australia.
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