Cyril Ayling
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| Full name | Cyril Edgar Ayling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
26 October 1910 Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
13 November 1993 (aged 83) Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations |
Dennet Ayling (brother) Cecil Ayling (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 23 January 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
References
- Cyril Ayling at www.cricketarchive.com contains details of first-class and other matches, complete career statistics and scorecards
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1933 edition, page 508-520, reports on the South American tour to England in 1932.
Notes
- ↑ "South American Team in England". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1933 ed.). Wisden. p. 514.
- ↑ "South American Team in England". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1933 ed.). Wisden. p. 512.
- ↑ "Sir Theodore Brinckman's Team in the Argentine". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1939 ed.). Wisden. pp. 819–823.