About Richard Earnshaw
Lived 1939 – 1963 (aged 24). Richard Earnshaw was a cricketer.
Richard Oliver Earnshaw (8 January 1939 – 28 July 1963) was an English first-class cricketer.
While undertaking his National Service in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Earnshaw played first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team, making his debut against the touring South Africans at Portsmouth in 1960. He made a second first-class appearance in 1961, against Northamptonshire at Northampton. as well as bowling 67 wicketless overs with his right-arm fast-medium bowling, conceding 211 runs.
He died at Westminster in July 1963, aged just 24.
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Who was Richard Earnshaw?
(1939-1963)
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Richard Earnshaw was born on 8 January 1939 in Huddersfield.
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Richard Earnshaw died on 28 July 1963 in Westminster.
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Richard Earnshaw was a cricketer.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Richard Earnshaw. https://biography.guide/richard-earnshaw/
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