Sailor Young

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Sailor Young England (ENG)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Left-arm medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	2	171
Runs scored	43	2303
Batting average	21.50	11.99
100s/50s	-/-	-/4
Top score	43	81
Balls bowled	556	26708
Wickets	12	514
Bowling average	21.83	23.37
5 wickets in innings	-	27
10 wickets in match	-	4
Best bowling	4/30	8/54
Catches/stumpings	1/-	80/-
Test debut: 29 June 1899 Last Test: 17 July 1899 Source: [1]

Harding Isaac "Sailor" Young (born February 5, 1876, Leyton, Essex, died December 12, 1964, Rochford, Essex) was a cricketer who played for Essex and England.

Young was a left-arm medium-pace bowler and a capable lower-order batsman. His bowling achieved considerable turn off the wicket, and was described in Wisden as having "a deceptive curl"^[2]. Young's cricketing successes in minor matches led Essex to buy him out of the Royal Navy. He played a few games in 1898, but came to prominence the following year, when he scored more than 600 runs and took 139 wickets. He was picked for two Test matches that season against the Australian touring side and took six wickets in each of them, finishing at the top of the England averages. But he was discarded for the last match of the series and never played Test cricket again.

Young played regularly for Essex for the next four years, but he never took 100 wickets in a season again. By 1903 his wicket tally was down to just 52 and after that season he dropped out of regular cricket, though he continued to play a few matches for Essex and as a member of the MCC ground staff right up to 1912. In 1910-11 he was a member of the MCC team that toured the West Indies.

From 1921 to 1931, Young was a first-class umpire and he officiated in two Test matches in 1924 and 1926.