Brian Taylor (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1932
Place of Birth: West Ham, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 12-Jun-2017
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Brian Taylor (cricketer)
- Brian Taylor (19 June 1932 – 12 June 2017) was an English cricketer who played for and captained Essex.Known as "Tonker" Taylor for his forthright approach to batting and his evident enjoyment of the game, Taylor was a high-class wicketkeeper who was thought of in his early playing days as a potential successor to Godfrey Evans as England's keeper.
- He was named as Young Cricketer of the Year in 1956 by the Cricket Writers' Club, his first full season, though he had made his first-class debut seven years earlier.
- He toured South Africa with the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) side in 1956-57 as understudy to Evans, but did not feature in any of the Test matches as Evans had one of his most brilliant Test series. In the event, his left-handed batting did not develop as much as had been hoped, and the Test call never came.
- But Taylor still had a long and distinguished career in county cricket.
- From 1961 to 1972, he played in 301 consecutive County Championship matches for Essex, and he captained the county from 1967 to 1973, when he retired.
- Under his captaincy, Essex assembled the nucleus of the young team that was to bring the county its first-ever trophies in the years after Taylor retired. In all cricket, Taylor made 1,294 dismissals, which puts him seventh on the all-time list of wicketkeepers.
- He also made more than 19,000 runs in a total of 572 first-class matches.
- He was selected as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1972.
- He was a Test selector for England from 1973.
- He took part in the first cricket tour of Bangladesh when MCC visited in 1976-77. He also played football with Bexleyheath and Welling and Deal Town in the Kent League and Southern League. He died in 2017.
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