Francis McHugh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrancis McHugh
English county cricketer
Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1925
Place of Birth: Burmantofts, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 21-Feb-2018
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Francis McHugh
- Francis Prest McHugh (15 November 1925 – 21 February 2018) was an English first-class cricketer, who played three games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1949, and 92 matches for Gloucestershire from 1952 to 1956.A 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) right arm fast medium bowler, he took 276 wickets at an average of 24.84, with a best of 7 for 32 for Gloucestershire against his native county.
- He took five wickets in an innings fifteen times, and ten wickets in a match on four occasions. Initially McHugh was a distinctly fast bowler who came into the Yorkshire team with a major injury to Ron Aspinall who was heading the bowling averages early in 1949.
- He did modestly and with the presence of Coxon, Trueman and Appleyard, was discarded and did not play even in the Second Eleven in 1950.
- McHugh then went to Gloucestershire and upon qualifying he quickly found that his accuracy could only become of county standard when he moderated his pace.
- Consequently, McHugh became with George Lambert the best pace attack Gloucestershire – a county known for half a century for its near-exclusive reliance on spin bowling – had fielded to that point in the twentieth century.
- In 1954 he took ninety-two wickets for exactly twenty runs each, and in 1955 did almost as well with over seventy-five wickets, whilst in 1956 his average fell further to only nineteen runs a wicket. McHugh's batting was consistently inept.
- His average of 2.63 is the lowest by anyone to play more than fifty first-class games.
- 66 of his 111 innings were scoreless (he was dismissed for a duck 38 times), and he reached double figures on only four occasions.
- It was probably the liability of his batting that caused Gloucestershire to discard him in favour of David Smith for the 1957 season: McHugh had suffered from illness during 1956, and did not play after June, but had bowled so well in his last-ever game with eleven wickets for 112 runs that he was expected to continue in 1957.
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