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Full name | John Lindsay Bryan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Beckenham, Kent | 26 May 1896||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 23 April 1985 Eastbourne, Sussex | (aged 88)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm leg-break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Opening batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Ronnie Bryan (brother) Godfrey Bryan (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1919–1932 | Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1921 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 1 December 2008 |
John Lindsay Bryan MC (26 May 1896 – 23 April 1985) was an English schoolteacher and cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Kent County Cricket Club. Bryan served in the British Army in both World War I and World War II and won the Military Cross in 1918.
He played for Kent alongside two of his brothers and toured Australia with the England cricket team in 1924/25. He was named as one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year in 1922.