Richard Latham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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cricketer
Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1908
Place of Birth: São Paulo, Brazil
Date of Death: 04-Feb-1953
Profession: cricketer
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Richard Latham
- Richard Lockhart Latham (5 January 1908 – 4 February 1953) was a Brazilian cricketer who played a number of international matches for the Brazilian national side.
- In 1932, he toured England with a combined South American team, making five first-class appearances on tour.
- Latham has been described as "arguably the best cricketer ever to represent Brazil".Latham was born in São Paulo, but was sent to England to be educated, attending Repton School.
- His father, L.
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- Latham, had played club cricket for the São Paulo Athletic Club.
- Latham himself made his international debut during the 1927–28 season, aged 19, when Brazil visited Buenos Aires to play a three-match series against the Argentine national team.
- He opened the batting in all three games, scoring a century (116) in the second match and a half-century (71) in the third.
- Argentina returned the tour in mid-1929, played two games in São Paulo and one in Niterói.
- In the first of those games, Latham scored 105 and 100 as Brazil won by 186 runs.
- He consequently became the first player from a non-Test-playing country to score centuries in both innings of an international match.Along with Arthur Grass and Ronald Pryor, Latham was one of only three Brazilians (out of a fifteen-man squad) to be named in the composite South American team that toured the British Isles during the 1932 season.
- He went on to play in five of the six first-class matches on tour, generally opening the batting with Argentina's Henry Marshal, and also featured in most of the minor fixtures.
- Latham's highest score during the first-class portion of the tour was an innings of 58 against Scotland, which came from third in the batting order.
- In the other matches, he recorded three more half-centuries – 68 against the Affiliated South American Banks team, 65 against the Richmond Cricket Club, and 86 against the Gentlemen of Surrey.
- Latham died in São Paulo in February 1953, aged only 45.
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