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Full name | Tyrell Fabian Johnson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tunapuna, Trinidad | 10 January 1917|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 5 April 1985 Couva, Trinidad | (aged 68)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Only Test (cap 51) | 19 August 1939 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1935/36–1938/39 | Trinidad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:
CricInfo, 12 August 2022 |
Tyrell Fabian Johnson (10 January 1917 – 5 April 1985) was a West Indian international cricketer who played in one Test match in 1939.
Tall and thin, Johnson was a left-arm fast-medium bowler. He played for Trinidad in three consecutive finals of the Inter-Colonial Tournament in the late 1930s. [1] He was picked for the 1939 West Indies cricket tour to England after taking six wickets for 41 runs in a trial match in February 1939 and leading the West Indian first-class bowling figures for season with 22 wickets at an average of 9.59. [2] [3]
In England in 1939, Johnson took a wicket with his first ball of the tour at Worcester, but was picked for only eight other first-class matches. That included, however, the third Test of the three-match series at The Oval, where he repeated his instant success by taking the wicket of Walter Keeton with his first delivery. [2] He took two further wickets in the match ( Len Hutton and Norman Oldfield), [4] but managed only 16 on the tour as a whole, at an average of 32 runs per wicket. [5]
This single Test match was Johnson's last first-class cricket appearance. [6] He worked in Trinidad as a customs officer. [2]