Michael Ricketts (cricketer)
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Edgbaston, Warwickshire,
England
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| Full name | Michael Rodney Ricketts | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 September 1923 Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 November 2004 (aged 81) Truro, Cornwall, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1947–1954 | Suffolk | ||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 21 February 2019 | |||||||||||||||
Michael Rodney Ricketts (29 September 1923 – 21 November 2004) was an English first-class cricketer, British Army officer and educator. Ricketts served during the Second World War with the King's Royal Rifle Corps, attending the University of Oxford after the conclusion of the war. During this time he played first-class cricket for the Free Foresters, before embarking on a teaching career that saw him become the headmaster of the independent Sutton Valence School in Kent.
Ricketts was born in the Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston to Clement Ricketts and his wife, Dorothy Frances Eden.[1] He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset.[1] He served in the British Army during World War II with the King's Royal Rifle Corps, enlisting with the rank of second lieutenant in May 1943.[2] During the war he was wounded in action.[1]
Following the war he attended Trinity College, Oxford.[1] While at Oxford one appearance in first-class cricket for the Free Foresters against Oxford University at Oxford.[3] Batting once in the match, Ricketts was dismissed by Philip Whitcombe for a single run in the Free Foresters first-innings.[4] He also played minor counties cricket for Suffolk from 1947–1954, making 53 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.[5]