James Langridge

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. James Langridge was an English cricketer, who played for Sussex and England. He played in eight Tests than spanned either side of World War II. Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted, "a great servant of Sussex, Jim Langridge played only one Test after the War in a sporadic England career. As a steady left-handed batsman and patient left-arm spinner, his Test opportunities were greatly limited by the presence of Yorkshire's Hedley Verity". Born in Newick, Sussex, Langridge was an all-rounder who played first-class cricket for almost thirty years, James Langridge always called by his forename to distinguish him from his younger brother, Sussex opening batsman John Langridge was a middle-order left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm spin bowler. Initially played by Sussex from 1924 as a batsman, he scored 1,000 runs in an English cricket season twenty times and finished with 31,716 runs and 42 centuries... Mehr