Born On This Day: 23rd December

ANE (Alan) Waldron was born in Southsea, Portsmouth in 1920. He was an Army officer, and prisoner-of-war in Germany from 1942. In June 1948, he played in two first-class friendly matches for Hampshire at a week in Aldershot, the first against Cambridge University who included four future England cricketers (Dewes, Doggart, Bailey and Insole), as Waldron opened the bowling with another Hampshire debutant, Derek Shackleton.

His second match was against the Combined Services when batting at number six he came in with Hampshire 15-4, scored 52 and, at one point in the innings, batting with another debutant Jimmy Gray, helped them to reach 269 all out. It was sufficient for Hampshire to win by an innings against a Services side that included Hampshire’s John Manners and future England captain Peter May.

A few weeks later Waldron played twice in first-class matches for the Combined Services against Glamorgan and Worcestershire. He died at Richmond, Surrey in 1999.