Laurie Fishlock

Laurie Fishlock

Fishlock in about 1935
Personal information
Full name	Laurence Barnard Fishlock
Born	(1907-01-02)2 January 1907 Battersea, London, England
Died	25 June 1986(1986-06-25) (aged 79) Sutton, London, England
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Slow left-arm orthodox
International information
National side	England
Test debut	25 July 1936 v India
Last Test	28 February 1947 v Australia
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class Matches 4 417 Runs scored 47 25,376 Batting average 11.75 39.34 100s/50s 0/0 56/135 Top score 19* 253 Balls bowled – 859 Wickets – 11 Bowling average – 45.81 5 wickets in innings – 0 10 wickets in match – 0 Best bowling – 4/62 Catches/stumpings 1/– 216/–
Source: CricInfo, 10 September 2022

Laurence Barnard Fishlock (2 January 1907 – 25 June 1986) was an English cricketer, who played in four Test matches from 1936 to 1947.^[1] A specialist batsman, he achieved little in those four matches, but might have had a much more substantial Test career had he not lost six of what should have been his best years to World War II.

Colin Bateman, a cricket writer, noted that "Fishlock, a good county performer, was astonishingly unlucky when his Test chance did come along... A forcing left-hander, he went on two Ashes tours (1936–37) and (1946–47) and suffered hand injuries both times, restricting him to one Test overseas".^[2]