Country: | England |
Fullname: | Thomas William Tyrwhitt-Drake |
Birth Date: | 5 November 1926 |
Birth Place: | Paddington, London, England |
Death Place: | Sidcup, Kent, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Club1: | Cambridge University |
Year1: | 1946 - 1948 |
Club2: | Hertfordshire |
Year2: | 1946 - 1958 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 4 |
Runs1: | 122 |
Bat Avg1: | 15.25 |
100S/50S1: | –/– |
Top Score1: | 38 |
Hidedeliveries: | true |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 1/– |
Date: | 31 May |
Year: | 2019 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/22002.html Cricinfo |
Thomas William Tyrwhitt-Drake (5 November 1926 - 8 March 2008) was an English first-class cricketer.
Tyrwhitt-Drake was born at Paddington in November 1926, to Reverend Charles William Tyrwhitt-Drake.[1] He was educated at Haileybury, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] While studying at Cambridge he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Somerset at Bath in 1946.[3] He made two further first-class appearances for Cambridge University, playing against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1946 and Leicestershire in 1948.[3] He scored 73 runs for Cambridge across six innings, with a top score of 33.[4] Eleven years later he made a final appearance in first-class cricket for the Free Foresters against Oxford University.[3] In addition to playing first-class cricket, Tyrwhitt-Drake also played minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire from 1946 - 58, making 85 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.[5]
He graduated from Trinity with a master's degree in 1949,[2] and married Muriel Ann Makgill in September 1955, with the couple having three children.[1] He died at Sidcup in March 2008.