John Stephenson (cricketer, born 1903)

John Stewart Stephenson (10 November 1903 – 7 October 1975) was an English first-class cricketer, who played nineteen matches for Oxford University, and sixteen for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1923 and 1926.[1]

Born in Elloughton-cum-Brough, Yorkshire, England, Stephenson was a right hand batsman, who scored 949 runs in his thirty five first-class matches, with a best of 72 against H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI. He took twenty one catches in the field. He took eleven wickets with his right arm medium pace, with a best of 3 for 44 against Gloucestershire, at an average of 47.36.

Stephenson died in October 1975 in Horsham, Sussex, England. His brother, Robert Stephenson, played three first-class matches for the Royal Navy.

References
  1. Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 378. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.


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