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Sir George Oswald Browning "Gubby" Allen CBE (31 July 1902 – 29 November 1989) was a cricketer who captained England in eleven Test matches. In first-class matches, he played for Middlesex and Cambridge University. A fast bowler and hard-hitting lower-order batsman, Allen later became an influential cricket administrator who held key positions in the Marylebone Cricket Club, which effectively ruled English cricket at the time; he also served as chairman of the England selectors. Allen was born in Australia but grew up in England from the age of six. After playing cricket for Eton College, he went to Cambridge University where he established a reputation as a fast bowler, albeit one who was often injured. On leaving university, Allen played mainly for Middlesex and improved as a batsman in the following seasons until work commitments prevented him playing regularly. A change of career allowed him to play more cricket, and by the late 1920s, he was on the verge of the England Test team. He made his debut for England in 1930, and remained in contention for a place, when he was available to play, for the rest of the decade. During the controversial bodyline tour of 1932–33, Allen was very successful for England but refused to use the intimidatory tactics employed by his team-mates. From 1933, Allen worked in the London Stock Exchange, which limited his cricket. Even so, he was appointed England captain in 1936 and led the team during the 1936–37 tour of Australia, where the home team won 3–2, having lost the first two matches. He continued to play for Middlesex until 1939; after the Second World War, in which he worked in Military Intelligence, he played irregularly into the 1950s. He captained England in a final Test series in the West Indies in 1947–48. As a cricketer, Allen was affected by his lack of regular play and was at his most effective during his two tours of Australia when he was able to build up his form. At other times, his bowling was often erratic but occasionally devastating. An orthodox batsman, he often scored runs when his team were under pressure. As Allen's first-class career came to a close, he moved into administration and held considerable influence in English and world cricket. He was instrumental in the creation of a MCC coaching manual, and worked hard to eliminate illegal bowling actions. As chairman of selectors from 1955 to 1961, he presided over a period of great success for English cricket, during which he worked closely with the Test captain Peter May. In 1963 he became MCC President, and was made the club's Treasurer the following year. In this role, he was deeply involved in the D'Oliveira affair, during which he withheld information, which affected Basil D'Oliveira and the status of a forthcoming (but later abandoned) tour of South Africa, from the rest of the MCC. After his gradual retirement from his administrative roles, he was knighted in 1986 and spent his later years in a flat close to Lord's Cricket Ground, where he died, aged 87, in 1989. ==Early life== Allen was born on 31 July 1902 in Bellevue Hill, Sydney, Australia,〔Swanton, p. 20.〕 the second of three children to Walter Allen, a lawyer, and his wife Marguerite (Pearl), ''née'' Lamb, the daughter of a Queensland Minister of Lands. Later rumours suggested that Allen's real father may have been the Middlesex cricketer Pelham Warner, who supported Allen in his cricket career.〔 〕〔 Both of Allen's parents had roots in England as well as Australia. In 1909, when Allen was six years old, his family moved to London—hoping that the children would benefit from an English education〔—where they initially lived in a flat before moving to various country villages.〔Swanton, p. 21.〕 Finding that they enjoyed England, the family abandoned plans to return to Australia.〔Swanton, p. 2.〕 After being educated by a governess, Allen joined Summer Fields School in Oxford in 1912. He began to play cricket seriously at school; by his second year, he reached the school second team, from where he progressed to the first team then the captaincy.〔Swanton, pp. 20–23.〕 His ability attracted the attention of Eton College, where a friend of Allen's father, C. M. Wells, was a housemaster. The family had planned to send Allen to Haileybury, but Wells persuaded Allen senior to send his son to Eton instead, although it was a considerable financial burden on the family. Allen, although not initially keen on the prospect, started there in the winter of 1915–16.〔Swanton, pp. 25–27.〕 At Eton, Allen played many sports,〔Swanton, pp. 43–44.〕 but his academic performance was no more than respectable,〔 and he later admitted to laziness.〔Swanton, p. 43.〕 In cricket, Allen played for his school house team and had reasonable success with bat and ball; by 1918 he was house cricket captain. After a trial match, and a spell in the school second team, he progressed to the Eton first team in 1919.〔Swanton, pp. 27–30.〕 The effects of a rib injury limited his bowling, and he achieved little with the bat. Even so, he was chosen to play in the prestigious match against Harrow School, played annually at Lord's Cricket Ground in London.〔Swanton, p. 31.〕 In his second innings, he scored 69 runs, the highest individual score of the game, and Eton won the match.〔Swanton, pp. 32–33.〕 His rib injury continued to trouble him in 1920, and caused him such pain that he considered abandoning bowling altogether. The new Eton coach George Hirst persuaded him to continue,〔Swanton, p. 37.〕 and a few weeks later Allen took nine for 19 (nine wickets while conceding 19 runs) in an innings against Winchester. But other than this performance, Allen was ineffective.〔Swanton, pp. 38–39.〕 More successful in 1921, he opened the batting for a time; he also opened the bowling, topping the Eton bowling averages.〔Swanton, p. 42.〕 He had some success at Lord's against Harrow and a particularly fast bowling spell in this match was seen by Hubert Ashton, who was to captain the Cambridge University team the following year〔Swanton, pp. 41–42.〕—Allen had already been approved for a place at Trinity College, Cambridge beginning later that year.〔Swanton, p. 40.〕 He was chosen to play in the annual matches at Lord's in which two teams representing the best public schoolboys opposed each other, but was forced to withdraw with sunstroke.〔Swanton, pp. 42–43.〕 Towards the end of the 1921 season, Allen was invited to play first-class cricket as an amateur for Middlesex,〔Swanton, p. 45.〕 for whom he qualified by residence.〔Swanton, p. 46.〕 Allen believed that Pelham Warner, who often supported young Middlesex cricketers, encouraged his selection by the club, despite the potential risks to the team's position in the County Championship from playing an inexperienced cricketer.〔Marshall, pp. 8–9.〕 Allen made his first-class debut against Somerset on 21 August 1921 and made one other appearance that season without achieving much in either match. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gubby Allen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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