Former England Test Captain, Ray Illingworth Passed Away
Highlights:
- Ray Illingworth, a former England captain, has Passed Away , recently.
- Raymond Illingworth CBE was an English cricketer, cricket commentator, and administrator who was born on June 8, 1932.
- On June 8, 1932, Illingworth was born in Pudsey, West Riding of Yorkshire. He was a member of the Farsley Cricket Club as a teenager.
- He was one of only nine players in first-class cricket history to take 2,000 wickets and score 20,000 runs as of 2015.
- Between 1958 and 1973, he played 61 Tests for England and captained the team 31 times, winning 12 matches and the Ashes series in Australia in 1970.
- He was an all-rounder who averaged 23.24 in Test cricket and took 122 wickets with his off-spin bowling at 31.20.
- Between 1993 and 1996, he served as chairman of the England selectors and coached the team in 1995-96.
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