Johnny Tyldesley
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John Thomas Tyldesley was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and Test cricket for England. He was a specialist professional batsman, usually third in the batting order,
Tyldesley in about 1895
England team v. Australia, Trent Bridge 1899. Back row: Dick Barlow (umpire), Tom Hayward, George Hirst, Billy Gunn, J T Hearne (12th man), Bill Storer (wkt kpr), Bill Brockwell, V A Titchmarsh (umpire). Middle row: C B Fry, K S Ranjitsinhji, W G Grace (captain), Stanley Jackson. Front row: Wilfred Rhodes, Johnny Tyldesley.
"Forty-six centuries in eleven years." Johnny Tyldesley as caricatured by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, August 1906.
Ernest Tyldesley
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George Ernest Tyldesley was an English cricketer. The younger brother of Johnny Tyldesley and the leading batsman for Lancashire. He remains Lancashire's most prolific run-getter of all time, and is o
Johnny Tyldesley
…of most runs in a season for Lancashire with 2,633 achieved in 1901, and is 2nd on total runs scored for Lancashire with 31,949 – his younger brother Ernest Tyldesley has the record with 34,222. There is an oil painting by Albert Chevallier Tayler titled Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury of a match at the St Lawrence…
Tyldesley in about 1925
Ernest Tyldesley 1921