| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ian Norman Mitchell | |||
| Born | 7 April 1925 Henbury, Bristol, England |
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| Died | 4 June 2011 (aged 86) Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1950–1952 | Gloucestershire | |||
| 1949 | Cambridge University | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | |||
| Matches | 11 | |||
| Runs scored | 160 | |||
| Batting average | 8.88 | |||
| 100s/50s | –/– | |||
| Top score | 27 | |||
| Balls bowled | – | |||
| Wickets | – | |||
| Bowling average | – | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | – | |||
| 10 wickets in match | – | |||
| Best bowling | – | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 5/– | |||
| Source: Cricinfo, 31 July 2011 | ||||
Ian Norman Mitchell (17 April 1925 – 4 June 2011) was an English cricketer. Mitchell was a right-handed batsman. The son of Major Alexander Black Mitchell,[1] a High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, he was born in Henbury, Bristol and educated at Harrow School, where he represented the school cricket team.[2]
While studying at Cambridge University, Mitchell made his first-class debut for Cambridge University Cricket Club against Middlesex in 1949. He made a further first-class appearance that season for the university, the last of which came against Warwickshire.[3] The following season he made his first-class debut for Gloucestershire against Lancashire in the 1950 County Championship. He made 7 further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Hampshire in the 1952 County Championship.[3] His 8 first-class matches for the county came with limited success, with him scoring 97 runs at an average of 6.92, with a high score of 24.[4] At a time when the use of amateurs as captains was coming to an end, Mitchell was offered the role of captaining Gloucestershire after Sir Derrick Bailey resigned at the end of the 1952 season, but he turned it down it down citing that he didn't have the time.[5] As a result, Gloucestershire appointed Jack Crapp, the senior professional, as its captain for the 1953 and 1954 seasons.
In the same year as his debut for Gloucestershire, Mitchell married Anne Denise Perpetua Gibbs on 7 October of that year. The couple would go on to have 4 children.[1] Mitchell himself would follow in his fathers footsteps by becoming the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1969.[6] He died at his home near Tetbury, Gloucestershire on 4 June 2011.