| Cyril Ayling | |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Fullname: | Cyril Edgar Ayling |
| Birth Date: | 26 October 1910 |
| Birth Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Death Place: | Argentina |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Family: | Dennet Ayling (brother) Cecil Ayling (brother) |
| International: | true |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 9 |
| Runs1: | 200 |
| Bat Avg1: | 15.38 |
| 100S/50S1: | - /1 |
| Top Score1: | 50 |
| Deliveries1: | 1,362 |
| Wickets1: | 24 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 28.08 |
| Fivefor1: | 1 |
| Tenfor1: | - |
| Best Bowling1: | 5/48 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 8/ - |
| Date: | 23 January |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12528/12528.html CricketArchive |
Cyril Edgar Ayling (October 1910 - 13 November 1993) was a cricketer who played for Argentina and was a member of the South American cricket team that toured England in 1932. He represented Argentina in three first-class matches against Sir Theodore Brinckman's XI in 1937-38, but also played in non-first-class representational matches for Argentina from 1930 to 1959. He was born in Buenos Aires.
Ayling was a middle-to-lower order right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast medium bowler. On the tour of England in 1932, his batting was not very successful in the six first-class matches, and his highest score was only 34. His bowling was better and he took 19 wickets in first-class games, with a best of five for 48 as he and his brother, Dennet Ayling, bowled the South American team to victory over Sir Julien Cahn's side at Nottingham.[1] Outside the first-class games, he scored an unbeaten 95 and took five for 72 against MCC at Lord's; his innings averted the follow-on and his victims included Test player Eddie Dawson and former England captain Pelham Warner.[2]
Against Brinckman's XI in 1937-38, Ayling played alongside Dennet and a third brother, Cecil Ayling. His highest score in three matches came in a rearguard action in the last of the three games, in which all three brothers reached 50 - in Cyril's case, exactly 50. His best bowling, four for 95, also came in this match.[3]
Cyril Ayling continued to play high-level Argentinian cricket past his 50th birthday.