Richard Granville should not be confused with Richard Grenville (disambiguation).
Country: | England |
Fullname: | Richard St Leger Granville |
Birth Date: | 24 April 1907 |
Birth Place: | Kings Worthy, Hampshire, England |
Death Place: | Banbury, Oxfordshire, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Family: | Francis Compton (great-uncle) |
Club1: | Warwickshire |
Year1: | 1934 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 1 |
Runs1: | 9 |
Bat Avg1: | 4.50 |
100S/50S1: | –/– |
Top Score1: | 7 |
Deliveries1: | – |
Wickets1: | – |
Bowl Avg1: | – |
Fivefor1: | – |
Tenfor1: | – |
Best Bowling1: | – |
Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
Date: | 7 May |
Year: | 2012 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13713.html Cricinfo |
Richard St Leger Granville (24 April 1907 – 8 August 1972) was an English cricketer. Granville was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Kings Worthy, Hampshire.
Granville made a single first-class appearance for Warwickshire against Leicestershire at Edgbaston in the 1934 County Championship.[1] Warwickshire won the toss and elected to bat, making 163 all out in their first-innings, with Granville who batted at number seven scoring 2 runs before he was dismissed by Ewart Astill. Leicestershire responded in their first-innings with 125 all out, to which Warwickshire responded in their second-innings with 148 all out, with Granville making 7 runs before he was dismissed by Astill once more. Warwickshire went on to win the match by 78 runs.[2] This was his only major appearance for Warwickshire.
He died at Banbury, Oxfordshire, on 8 August 1972. His great-uncle, Francis Compton, was a first-class cricketer and a Member of Parliament.