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About Richard Lumb
- Richard Graham Lumb (born 27 February 1950, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England) is an English first-class cricketer, who started playing cricket for Brodsworth Main C.C.
- in Doncaster and then played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1969 to 1984.
- He was educated at Richmond Hill primary school Sprotborough and Percy Jackson Grammar School Adwick le Street.
- He was a tall, right-handed opening batsman of solid technique.
- He formed an opening partnership with Geoff Boycott for his native county, and was a stalwart player in an era of scant success for the Yorkshire team. He also played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) (1975-1980) Young England (1973), Rest of England (1976) and T.
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- Pearce's XI (1976).
- In addition, he appeared for the Yorkshire Second XI (1968-1984), Yorkshire Under-25s (1972-1974), and the Scarborough Festival XI (1983) in non first-class games.
- In 245 first-class matches he scored 11,723 runs, at an average of 31.17 with 22 hundreds, the largest being 165 not out against Gloucestershire, one of four centuries he recorded against them.
- In 137 one day matches he made 2,784 runs at 25.30, with a best score of 101 against Nottinghamshire. He is the brother in law of the South African first-class cricketer, A.
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- Smith.
- His son, Michael Lumb, also played for Yorkshire before moving to Hampshire for the 2007 season, and subsequently to Nottinghamshire in 2012.
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