George Macaulay

George Gibson Macaulay was a professional English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1920 and 1935. He was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1924. He also played in eight Test matches for England from 1923 to 1933. He died of pneumonia on active service in the Second World War.

About George Macaulay in brief

George Gibson Macaulay was a professional English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1920 and 1935. He was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1924. He took 1,838 wickets at an average of 17. 64 including four hat-tricks. He also played in eight Test matches for England from 1923 to 1933. He died of pneumonia on active service in the Second World War. He left a job at a bank to become a professional cricketers. He made his first- class debut aged 23 as a fast bowler. He altered his style to deliver off spin in addition to his pace bowling. This proved so effective that he was chosen to play for England in Test matches. His form slumped following injuries in the late 1920s, but a recovery in the early 1930s led to a recall by England. He broke down in his second match back in 1934, although he continued playing club cricket until the second World War, when he was killed in action. His father was a well-known local criceter, as were his uncles. He had a son and a daughter, both of whom died in childhood. He is survived by his wife and a son-in-law, who was also a professional cricket player. He has also a daughter who played for Yorkshire in the 1930s. He lived in Wakefield, Kent, with his wife, who died in a car crash in the 1970s. His son has a son who played cricket in the 1980s and 1990s, and a grandson who played in the 2000s.

The couple have a son, who also played cricket, and two daughters who play for Yorkshire. Macaulays was a member of the Royal Air Force and served as a pilot officer in the First World War and the Royal Navy. He worked as a bank clerk and played cricket and football in his spare time. In 1920, Yorkshire needed to strengthen its bowling attack. Of the team’s previously successful bowlers, Major Booth had been killed in the war, Alonzo Drake had died soon afterwards from illness, and George Hirst was past his best. Harry Hayley, a 19th-century Yorkshire crickater, saw MacaulAY in action and was sufficiently impressed to recommend him for a trial with the county. At the beginning of the 1920 season, he played in two warm-up games for Yorkshire, taking six wickets for 52 runs in a one-day game and four for 24 and two for 19 in a two-day match. He continued to play until the middle of June before dropping out of the team after an unsuccessful match against Surrey. He then came to wider public attention by taking ten wickets in a match against Derbyshire. In his fourth game in 1921, he took six wicket for ten runs as Warwickshire were bowled out for three runs to bowl out for 23 runs. In the first ten match figures of the match, the first time he had taken ten wicket figures of ten runs or more, he had bowled for 65 runs. He managed a top score of just 15 with the bat.

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