David Skinner (cricketer)
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman |
| Bowling type | Right-arm off-breaks |
| First-class record | |
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| Matches | 23 |
| Runs scored | 475 |
| Batting average | 13.57 |
| 100s/50s | -/1 |
| Top score | 63 |
| Balls bowled | 234 |
| Wickets | 2 |
| Bowling average | 91.00 |
| 5 wickets in innings | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - |
| Best Bowling | 1-41 |
| Catches/Stumpings | 11/- |
| First class debut: 17 May 1947 Last first class game: 10 August 1949 Source: CricketArchive |
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David Anthony Skinner (March 22, 1920 — January 17, 1998) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who played for Derbyshire. He was born in Duffield.
Making his debut in one match in 1947, Skinner was not selected to play at all during the following season, but was then appointed as county captain for the 1949 season. The move was not successful: Derbyshire missed the all-round skills of George Pope and fell to 15th place in the County Championship. Skinner himself was a modest performer, though in this he was no different from the other amateurs – Gilbert Hodgkinson and Edward Gothard – who had captained an otherwise entirely professional side since the Second World War. Towards the end of the season other amateurs appeared after fulfilling their schoolmastering commitments, and Skinner did not play in the last few matches of the season.
In fact, Skinner never played first-class cricket again. Derbyshire registered the former Cambridge University and Nottinghamshire amateur Guy Willatt to take over as captain in the 1950 season, and though the registration was delayed until August and then scuppered by an immediate injury to Willatt, the county preferred to operate under the temporary captaincy of Pat Vaulkhard than to renew Skinner's tenure, Vaulkhard having at least a reputation for successful hard-hitting batsmanship. Willatt finally took over in 1951.
Skinner continued to play in the Second XI Championship until 1958. His brother, Alan, also played first-class cricket for Derbyshire, having made his debut sixteen years before David.
Skinner was a lower-middle-order batsman for Derbyshire, and an occasional bowler. He died in Thorpe Bay early in 1998.
[edit] External links
- David Skinner at Cricket Archive
