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Gerald "Gerry" Lester (27 December 1915 – 26 January 1998) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Player Profile: Gerald Lester )〕 He was born at Long Whatton, Leicestershire and died at Leicester. Lester was a right-handed batsman used for many years by Leicestershire as an opening batsman and a right-arm leg-break and googly bowler who amassed more than 300 rather expensive first-class wickets despite rarely being used as a front-line bowler. Every single one of his 373 first-class matches between 1937 and 1958 was played for Leicestershire. ==Prewar cricket== Lester played second eleven cricket in non-competitive local matches from 1935 and made his first-class debut for Leicestershire in 1937: in his first match he caught and bowled the great Leslie Ames, though Ames had made 182 runs at the time. In 1938, the first few matches played by Jack Walsh in which he took 21 wickets in three games pointed the way for Leicestershire's future bowling, but ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' found time to consider Lester too: "Lester had shown promise of developing into a capable leg-break bowler, but last season, although getting plenty of spin on the ball, he failed to find a length and as a result came in for heavy punishment." At this point in his career, Lester was regarded as primarily a bowler and batted in the lower order, with a highest score of 20 which he increased to 44 not out in the 1939 match in which Northamptonshire finally won a County Championship game after four years without a victory. In the previous season in the same match, Lester had set his then best bowling figures with six wickets for 108 runs in Northamptonshire's first innings. But on his prewar record, Lester was a bit-part player, a lower-order batsman and occasional purveyor of leg-breaks, but far from a first-team regular. 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「Gerry Lester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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