| Olympic medal record | ||
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| Men's field hockey | ||
| Silver | 1948 London | Team competition |
| Personal information | ||||
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| Full name | Michael Moore Walford | |||
| Born | 27 November 1915 Norton-on-Tees, County Durham, England |
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| Died | 16 January 2002 (aged 86) Sherborne, Dorset, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Left-arm slow | |||
| Role | Batsman | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1935–38 | Oxford University | |||
| 1946–53 | Somerset | |||
| 1950–51 | MCC | |||
| First-class cricket debut | 11 May 1935 Oxford University v Lancashire | |||
| Last First-class cricket | 1 September 1953 Somerset v Nottinghamshire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | |||
| Matches | 97 | |||
| Runs scored | 5327 | |||
| Batting average | 33.71 | |||
| 100s/50s | 9/28 | |||
| Top score | 264 | |||
| Balls bowled | 381 | |||
| Wickets | 8 | |||
| Bowling average | 31.12 | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | 1 | |||
| 10 wickets in match | – | |||
| Best bowling | 6/49 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 50/– | |||
| Source: CricketArchive, 12 July 2011 | ||||
Michael Moore Walford (27 November 1915 – 16 January 2002), often known as "Micky Walford", was an all-round sportsman: a British field hockey player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, a first-class cricket player for Oxford University and Somerset and a rugby union centre three-quarter and stand-off half good enough to play in an international trial for the England national rugby union team. He was born at Norton-on-Tees, County Durham and died at Sherborne, Dorset, where he was for many years a schoolmaster at Sherborne School.
He was a member of the British field hockey team at the 1948 summer Olympic Games, held in London. The team won the silver medal. He played all five matches as half-back.
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Walford was educated at Rugby School, where he was in the rugby, hockey and cricket teams. As a school cricketer, he was a middle order batsman and a slow left-arm bowler and he appeared in the schools match at Lord's against Marlborough College, part of the annual public schools games held each year at the then "headquarters" of cricket, in four consecutive years from 1931 to 1934. He was captain of the cricket team at the school in 1934.[1]
As a rugby player, he first came to prominence as a 17-year-old when he was named as one of the centre three-quarters in the England public schoolboys' rugby team to play Scotland in the annual match at the start of 1933.[2] In the same fixture in the 1933/34 season Walford's defensive play was singled out in the report in The Times as a factor in the English side's victory.[3]