Charles Ross Lyall, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetCharles Ross Lyall
English cricketer
Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1880
Date of Death: 04-Jun-1950
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Charles Ross Lyall
- Charles Ross Lyall (3 October 1880 – 4 June 1950) was a career soldier who played first-class cricket for Somerset in two matches in the 1911 season.
- He was born in Calcutta, India and died at Basingstoke, Hampshire. Lyall was an officer in the British Indian Army from 1900 to 1933.
- He graduated from the Royal Military College in 1900 as a "Queen's India cadet" and placed on the unattached list as a second lieutenant.
- In 1901, he was moved from the unattached list to the Indian Staff Corps.
- In 1902 he was promoted to full lieutenant.
- The only cricket played by Lyall that is recorded from this period is a single non-first-class three-day match for the North-West Frontier Province against the Punjab cricket team in late 1903, in which Lyall played as a lower order batsman.In 1909, Lyall was promoted to captain attached to the 36th Sikhs regiment of the Indian army.
- In 1911, he appears to have been in England for some time during the cricket season: he played in one County Championship match against Yorkshire in May, scoring an unbeaten 21 in the first innings and 8 in the second.
- Two months later, he followed that with a second first-class match, this time against the touring Indian cricket team, in which he scored 15 and 11 not out.
- That was the extent of his first-class cricket and left him with the odd statistic of a batting average higher (at 27.50 runs per innings) than his highest score. Lyall returned to the Indian army.
- In 1916, he was promoted temporarily from captain to major in the 36th Sikhs.
- From 18 May 1915 to 30 September 1917 he was a Recruiting Officer.
- He served in Mesopotamia from 14 Oct 1917 to 24 June 1918.
- He was appointed an instructor at the Central School of Musketry 1 April 1919 to 30 April 1921.
- He went on to serve in Waziristan between 1921–23 and was wounded.In 1919, there is a report in the London Gazette of a temporary promotion from major to lieutenant-colonel for a period of six days in 1918, while he commanded a battalion of 151st Indian Infantry.
- In 1922, he is reported to have relinquished the rank of lieutenant-colonel at the end of a period of commanding a battalion within the 36th Sikhs.Promoted lieutenant-colonel 5 July 1924.
- By 1928, he temporarily moves on to the unemployed list before being reappointed to the Indian Army in July.
- There was another similar temporary move into and then out of unemployed status in 1929.
- He was appointed the Recruiting Officer, Jullundur 28 May 1929.
- Finally he retired from the Indian Army in 1933.
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