Roy Tattersall
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| Batting style | Left-handed batsman (LHB) | |
| Bowling type | Right arm off break (OB) | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 16 | 328 |
| Runs scored | 50 | 2040 |
| Batting average | 5.00 | 9.35 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/1 |
| Top score | 10* | 58 |
| Balls bowled | 4228 | 71133 |
| Wickets | 58 | 1369 |
| Bowling average | 26.08 | 18.03 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 4 | 99 |
| 10 wickets in match | 1 | 18 |
| Best bowling | 7/52 | 9/40 |
| Catches/stumpings | 8/0 | 146/0 |
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Test debut: 2 February 1951 |
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Roy Tattersall (born 17 August 1922, Tonge Moor, Bolton, United Kingdom) is a former cricketer who played 16 Tests for England as a specialist off spin bowler. Playing in the era of Jim Laker, a spin bowler who holds the record for the best Test bowling figures in a match, Tattersall found his opportunities at the highest stage limited, though he took wickets for Lancashire in county cricket at a bowling average below 20. Tattersall took 58 Test wickets, with 24 of them coming in his four five-wicket-hauls, including a match against South Africa in 1951 when he took twelve for 101 and helped England to a ten-wicket win. However, three years later he was out of the picture, and though he continued to play first class cricket until 1964, retiring with 99 first class five-wicket-hauls and a total of 1369 wickets, though he played his last ten years without being noticed by the England selectors.
