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The basics
Quick facts
Intro
English cricketer
Gender:
Male
Work field:
Birth:
19 November 1906(Barking, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Greater London, England)
Death:
16 November 1997(Auckland, Auckland Region, New Zealand)
The details
Biography
James Roy Sheffield (19 November 1906 – 16 November 1997) was a cricketer, who kept wicket for Essex and Wellington between 1929 and 1939. A right-hand bat, Sheffield made 180 appearances, scoring 3,914 runs at an average of 16.51 including one century, and he took 196 catches and made 54 stumpings.
During the winter of 1932-33 he took an extended trip around South America. His plan was to avoid the usual tourist routes and do it all in a canoe. He wrote about this in a book Bolivian Spy? that was published in 1935.