Sydney Falding

Sydney Wheatley Falding (5 May 1891 – 7 November 1959) was an English cricketer. Falding was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born in Kirkstall, Yorkshire.

Falding made his debut in county cricket for Lincolnshire in the 1914 Minor Counties Championship, in which played two matches against Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.[1] Following the First World War, Falding made a single first-class appearance for Northamptonshire against the touring Australians. The Australians scored a mammoth 621 in their first-innings, with Falding taking only the wicket of Warwick Armstrong for the cost of 119 runs.[2] He reappeared in county cricket in 1925, playing for Devon in the Minor Counties Championship. From 1925 to 1932, he played 80 matches for Devon.[1] He scored 3,137 runs for Devon at a batting average of 25.29, including several centuries and high score of 162 against Berkshire in 1926.[3] With the ball he took 176 wickets at a bowling average of 18.49.[3] In 1927, he played his final first-class match for the West of England against the touring New Zealanders at the County Ground, Exeter.[4] He took two wickets in the match, those of New Zealand captain Tom Lowry and Ces Dacre.[5]

He died in Leeds, Yorkshire on 7 November 1959.