Arthur Mitchell (cricketer)

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Arthur Mitchell England (ENG)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	-
	Tests	First-class
Matches	6	426
Runs scored	298	19523
Batting average	29.80	37.47
100s/50s	-/2	44/98
Top score	72	189
Balls bowled	6	523
Wickets	-	7
Bowling average	-	46.71
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	-	3/49
Catches/stumpings	9/-	439/-
Test debut: 15 December 1933 Last Test: 27 June 1936 Source: [1]

Arthur "Ticker" Mitchell (born September 13, 1902 in Baildon Green, Yorkshire, died December 25, 1976 in Bradford, Yorkshire) was a cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England.

Nicknamed "Ticker" because of a habit of chatting to himself while batting, Mitchell was a solid, determined and sometimes dour middle order batsman who converted to become an opening batsman after the retirement of Percy Holmes in 1932. An accumulator of runs rather than a stroke maker, he very occasionally allowed himself to bat more freely, and when he did he revealed himself as a particularly fine cutter. He scored centuries in four consecutive innings for Yorkshire in 1933.

Mitchell's Test cricket career might have consisted of just three matches on the 1933-34 tour of India, when he performed without distinction in what was, in effect, an England second eleven. But an injury to Maurice Leyland just before the Headingley Test against South Africa in 1935 led to Mitchell being summoned, literally, from his back garden. With scores of 58 and 72, he retained his place for the final Test, and played once more, against India in 1936.

Mitchell was appointed county coach to Yorkshire after the Second World War, and remained in the job until 1970.