James Langridge

James Langridge (10 July 1906 – 10 September 1966) was an English cricketer who played for Sussex and England. He played in eight Test matches between 1933 and 1946.

Langridge's Test match career amounted to just eight games, spread over thirteen years. On his debut against the West Indies at Old Trafford in 1933, he took seven wickets for 56 runs in the second innings. He was then picked for the 1933–34 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) tour to India under Douglas Jardine, where he scored 70 in the Test at Calcutta and took five wickets for 63 runs at Madras. He later made a single appearances in the 1935 series against South Africa, and against India, in both 1936 and 1946. The presence in the England team of left-arm spinner Hedley Verity undoubtedly restricted Langridge's Test opportunities. After Verity's death in the War, Langridge was picked at the age of 40 for the MCC tour of Australia in 1946–47 under Wally Hammond, and was chosen for the Third Test at Melbourne, but had to withdraw after injuring his groin in practice. He never played Test cricket again.

Langridge was captain of Sussex from 1950 to 1952, only the third professional player, after Les Berry of Leicestershire and Tom Dollery of Warwickshire, to be appointed the regular captain of a county club in the 20th century (Ewart Astill captained Leicestershire for a season in 1935, but only because no amateur could be found to do the job). He was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1932.

After retirement, he was county coach at Sussex until 1959. His son, Richard, opened the batting for Sussex regularly in the 1960s.

Langridge died in Brighton, Sussex, in September 1966, at the age of 60.