Michael Ricketts

Michael Rodney Ricketts (29 September 1923 – 21 November 2004) was an English first-class cricketer, British Army officer and educator. Ricketts served during the Second World War with the King's Royal Rifle Corps, attending the University of Oxford after the conclusion of the war. During this time he played first-class cricket for the Free Foresters, before embarking on a teaching career that saw him become the headmaster of the independent Sutton Valence School in Kent.

Early life, WWII and Oxford Ricketts was born in the Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston to Clement Ricketts and his wife, Dorothy Frances Eden. He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset. During the war he was wounded in action. Batting once in the match, Ricketts was dismissed by Philip Whitcombe for a single run in the Free Foresters first-innings. He also played minor counties cricket for Suffolk from 1947–1954, making 53 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.

Teaching career and later life After graduating from Oxford with a Master of Arts in 1951, He later served as the headmaster of Sutton Valence School, a post he held from 1967–1980.

He died at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro in November 2004. He was survived by his wife, Judith Anne Caroline Courtenay-Clack, whom he had married in January 1958, and their four children: two daughters and two sons.