Mike Taylor (cricketer, born 1942), Date of Birth
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English cricketer, born 1942
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About Mike Taylor (cricketer, born 1942)
- Michael Norman Somerset Taylor (born 12 November 1942) was an English first-class cricketer who played mainly for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and Hampshire County Cricket Club in a career that spanned the 1964 and 1980 seasons and included 375 first-class and 226 limited overs matches. Taylor was born at Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
- At the age of 15 he was being coached at Chesham Cricket Club by the ex-Derbyshire bowler Alf Pope.Taylor was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.
- He made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire in 1964 and played there until 1972, when he was not offered a new contract, despite playing in 230 matches with a batting average of 18.01 and 522 wickets at 27.88.
- In that final season, he played in a Gillette Cup match against Hampshire at Trent Bridge, taking 2-39 in 12 overs and top-scoring with 58, and when they learned of his release, Hampshire signed him.
- He had an immediate impact, for in 1973 he took 64 first-class wickets at 21.71, and scored 507 runs at 24.14, to help his new county to their second title.
- His bowling figures were even better in 1974 when they were foiled by the weather in the search for a second successive Championship, and through the 1970s he proved himself one of the best of Hampshire’s signings from another county.
- In addition to his fine medium-pace bowling he scored his first century for the county in 1977, and there was another in 1978.
- In that season, age 35, he was a member of the Hampshire side that won the Sunday League, as he had been in 1975.
- He retired at the end of the 1980 season and became Hampshire’s Assistant Secretary and then Marketing Manager, not least during the demanding 1990s in the move to the Rose Bowl.
- He took 308 first-class wickets for Hampshire at 24.21, plus 162 limited-overs wickets at 25.70 and an economy rate below four runs per over.
- His best bowling was 7-23 v his former county Nottinghamshire at Basingstoke in 1977.
- He retired from the office in 2002, after 30 years with his ‘new’ county.
Mike Taylor is the twin brother of Derek Taylor, the Somerset wicket-keeper.
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