Ronald Lagden

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Ronald Lagden
Personal information
Full name Ronald Owen Lagden
Born (1889-11-21)21 November 1889
Maseru, Basutoland
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St. Eloi, Belgium
Batting style Right-handed batsman
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Role All-rounder
Domestic team information
Years Team
1909-1912 Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 31
Runs scored 1197
Batting average 25.46
100s/50s 0/8
Top score 99*
Balls bowled 2729
Wickets 56
Bowling average 25.10
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 6-57
Catches/stumpings 18/0
Source: CricketArchive

Ronald Owen Lagden (21 November 1889 – 1 March 1915) was an English sportsman who played first-class cricket for Oxford University and represented England at rugby union.

Early life and family

Lagden was born in Maseru in what is now Lesotho (previously part of the British colony of Basutoland). He is one of only a handful of first-class cricketers to be born in that country.[lower-alpha 1] Lagden had a younger brother, Reginald, who was a first-class cricketer for Oxford's rivals, Cambridge University, as well as playing with Surrey.[1] Their father, Godfrey, had appeared in a single first-class match for the Marylebone Cricket Club at the age of 54.[2]

Cricket

A right arm fast bowler, Lagden batted in the lower order but often contributed valuable runs. His best innings was 99 not out, which he made in 1912 against the H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI, missing out on a century when Australian Neville Fraser was adjudged leg before wicket to Ernest Smith for a duck.[3]

Apart from University Matches, Lagden also played against touring international sides, Australia in 1909, India in 1911 and South Africa in 1912.[4] One of his two victims in the match against India was captain Bhupinder Singh of Patiala.[5]

The final time Lagden played with Oxford was at Lord's in July 1912, another University Match. He scored 68 in his final innings and dismissed his brother Reginald as his 56th and last first-class wicket.[6]

Rugby

While at Oxford University, Lagden took part in three Varsity matches. He was capped once for England, in the final match of their 1911 Five Nations Championship campaign, a Calcutta Cup match against Scotland at Twickenham. Lagden, a number eight, kicked two conversions in the 13 to 8 win.[7]

War

In 1914, Lagden joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps and was then attached to the 4th Battalion which were to fight in the Western Front. Just before the Second Battle of Ypres, Captain Lagden was one of 300 soldiers that ventured over the trench walls in an attack on the Germans, but was killed.[8]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Others include his brother (Reginald Lagden), Alan Barr, George Boyes, Harry Boyes, Arthur Lewis, and Dennis Piers.

References

  1. ↑ Reginald Lagden – CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  2. ↑ Godfrey Lagden – CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
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