Ron Aspinall

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First-class record
Ron Aspinall England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling type	Right-arm fast-medium
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.

His most successful game came in 1947 against Northamptonshire, when he took 8 for 42 and then 6 for 23 to dismiss the home team for 146 and 118 to hand Yorkshire victory by 351 runs. In 1948 he played fairly regularly as the successor to Bill Bowes, opening the Yorkshire bowling with Alec Coxon. Against Don Bradman's 'Invincibles' in the so-called 'Sixth Test' and he dismissed the great man himself in Australia's second innings, caught by Len Hutton for 86, as well as Sid Barnes, Doug Ring, Ernie Toshack and Keith Miller.

In the season before his first-class 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 before injury finished his season in May.

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.