Evelyn Wellings, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Evelyn Wellings

cricketer

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1909

Place of Birth: Sidi Gaber, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt

Date of Death: 10-Sep-1992

Profession: journalist, cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Evelyn Maitland "Lyn" Wellings (6 April 1909 – 10 September 1992) was an Egyptian-born English cricketer and journalist, who played for Oxford University and Surrey.Wellings was born in Alexandria, Egypt, where his father was a tea merchant.
He was sent to England for his education at the age of six, beginning at a prep school in Bournemouth and going on to Cheltenham College and Christ Church, Oxford.
At Oxford he won blues for cricket and golf.Usually writing as E.
M.
Wellings, he became a trenchant cricket correspondent later in his career, writing for the Daily Mirror and the London Evening News, the latter between 1938 and 1973.
Ian Wooldridge said that Wellings "dipped his pen in vitriol".
His Wisden obituary noted that he attacked one-day cricket, overseas players in county teams, faulty technique, the isolation of South African cricket and anything to do with the Test and County Cricket Board, and that "the tone of his argument was so forceful that it usually upset more people than it won over".
David Frith, however, defended Wellings, saying that "his attacks on the game's adverse trends and ill-conceived pieces of administration were the compulsion of a man whose regard for cricket was unusually deep", and came from someone who had himself played the game well and was "an outstanding analyst".
Frith added, "Wellings gave every impression of enjoying his infamous reputation."