Ron Aspinall

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Ron Aspinall England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling type	Right-arm fast-medium
First-class record
Matches	36
Runs scored	763
Batting average	19.07
100s/50s	0/4
Top score	75*
Balls bowled	5,956
Wickets	131
Bowling average	20.38
5 wickets in innings	8
10 wickets in match	2
Best Bowling	8-42
Catches/Stumpings	18/0
First class debut: 13 July 1946 Last first class game: 14 July 1950 Source: CricketArchive

Ronald Aspinall, born at Almondbury, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire on 26 October 1918 and died there on 16 August 1999, was a cricketer who played for Yorkshire and a cricket umpire.

A useful lower order right-handed batsman and a fast-medium right arm bowler, Aspinall was 27 before he made his first-class cricket debut in 1946 and four years later his career was over, ended by Achilles' tendon injury. But in the season before his career ended, 1949, he headed the national bowling averages in England by taking 30 wickets in just four matches at an average of less than 10 runs per wicket and was fleetingly talked of as a potential England bowler.

After leaving the first-class game, Aspinall played Minor Counties cricket for seven seasons for Durham and from 1960 to 1981 he was on the first-class umpires list.