Leonard Eric Bryant (2 June 1936 – 28 November 1999), played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1958 and 1960.
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| Full name | Leonard Eric Bryant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1936-06-02)2 June 1936 Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 November 1999(1999-11-28) (aged 63) Brent Knoll, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1958–1960 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 31 May 1958 Somerset v Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 29 July 1960 Somerset v Derbyshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 6 July 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A left-handed lower order batsman and a slow left-arm spin bowler whose action was allegedly modelled on that of Tony Lock,[1] Bryant played 15 matches for the Somerset side that finished third in the County Championship in 1958, equalling the best-ever finish by the county to that time. He took only 25 wickets, but that included five in an innings – five for 64 – against Worcestershire to win the match where Australian Colin McCool made his highest score in English cricket.[2] Wisden noted that Bryant "showed promise".[3]
However, he played only a handful matches in the drier summer of 1959 and in his first first-class game of 1960, against Gloucestershire at Bath, he was no-balled five times by umpire Hugo Yarnold for throwing.[4][5] Though he reappeared in two further matches that summer without incident, he was not re-engaged by Somerset at the end of the season and did not appear again in first-class cricket.