Country: | England |
Fullname: | Richard William Gordon Lewis Mitchell |
Birth Date: | 27 February 1913 |
Birth Place: | British Grenada |
Death Place: | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Right-arm fast medium |
Club1: | Oxford University |
Year1: | 1935 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 3 |
Runs1: | 58 |
Bat Avg1: | 29.00 |
100S/50S1: | –/– |
Top Score1: | 30 |
Hidedeliveries: | true |
Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
Date: | 4 July |
Year: | 2020 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/52575.html Cricinfo |
Richard William Gordon Lewis Mitchell (27 February 1913 – 13 January 1988) was a Grenadian-born Trinidadian first-class cricketer.
Born on the Caribbean island of Grenada in February 1913, Mitchell later studied in England at Keble College at the University of Oxford.[1] While studying at Oxford, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against a combined Minor Counties cricket team at Oxford in 1935.[2] Returning to the Caribbean after graduating from Oxford, later playing two first-class matches against British Guinea in 1938 for a team led by Rolph Grant.[2] Grant later moved to Trinidad where he died at Port of Spain in January 1988.