Fred Price (cricketer) explained

Fred Price
Birth Date:25 April 1902
Birth Place:Westminster, London
Death Date:13 January 1969 (aged 66)
Death Place:Hendon, Greater London
Batting:Right-handed
Columns:2
Column1:Test
Matches1:1
Runs1:6
Bat Avg1:3.00
100S/50S1:0/0
Top Score1:6
Hidedeliveries:true
Catches/Stumpings1:2/0
Column2:First-class
Matches2:402
Runs2:9,035
Bat Avg2:18.32
100S/50S2:3/36
Top Score2:111
Catches/Stumpings2:668/322
International:true
Country:England
Testdebutagainst:Australia
Testdebutdate:22 July
Testdebutyear:1938
Onetest:true
Source:https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/709/709.html CricketArchive
Date:6 November
Year:2022

Wilfred Frederick Frank Price (25 April 1902 – 13 January 1969) was a cricketer who played for Middlesex County Cricket Club from 1926 to 1947. Price also stood as an umpire from 1950 to 1967. He played in one Test match and officiated as an umpire in eight.

Price was a wicket-keeper who took 648 catches and 316 stumpings in his first-class career.

Price was unfortunate to be around in the same era as Les Ames, which limited Price's opportunities for an international career. He toured abroad twice, once with the Honourable Freddie Calthorpe's side in 1929/30, when he went as a replacement for Rony Stanyforth, and then on a non-Test tour to South America in 1937/8.

Price's reputation as an umpire was as someone who would stand up strongly for what he felt was right. He once no-balled Tony Lock, the Surrey and England spin bowler for throwing against India. He also lay down at square-leg, refusing to get up, to stop barracking at a Surrey-Yorkshire game.

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