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William "The Yold" Yalden (1740 – January 1824) was an English cricketer and, with Tom Sueter, one of the earliest known wicketkeeper/batsmen. Yalden played mainly for Chertsey and Surrey though he was also a regular, sometimes as captain, in England XI teams, particularly in matches against Hampshire. His career began in the 1760s and he is known to have played until 1785.〔 ==Cricket career== Between 1772 and 1783, Yalden made 44 known appearances in matches now classified as first-class by ''ESPNcricinfo'' and ''CricketArchive''.〔Note that surviving match records to 1825 are incomplete and any statistical compilation of a player's career in that period is based on ''known'' data. Match scorecards were not always created, or have been lost, and the matches themselves were not always recorded in the press or other media. Scorecard data was not comprehensive: e.g., bowling analyses lacked balls bowled and runs conceded; bowlers were not credited with wickets when the batsman was caught or stumped; in many matches, the means of dismissal were omitted.〕 This is the total found in ''Scores & Biographies'' and cited by ''ESPNcricinfo'';〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=''ESPNcricinfo'' )〕 it is also the total that can be counted in ''CricketArchive's'' list of his matches but, on its profile page, ''CricketArchive'' says he made 45 appearances which is incorrect.〔Haygarth, pp. 4–60.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=''CricketArchive'' )〕 ''CricketArchive'' lists seven "miscellaneous" matches in which Yalden is recorded, the last two of these in 1784 and 1785.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=''CricketArchive'' )〕 Fielding records are incomplete during Yalden's career but he is credited with 64 catches and one stumping in his first-class record.〔〔 Stumpings are difficult to find in the eighteenth century sources because they were often recorded as run outs, though there is one scorecard in which a dismissal is recorded as "put out behind The Yold": i.e., st Yalden. Yalden's single first-class stumping was recorded in a Surrey v Hampshire match at Laleham Burway in October 1778, the victim being Henry Bonham. According to ''Scores & Biographies'', this was the second-ever record of a stumping following one in 1744, though stumpings did occur but "it was not written down as such in the score".〔Haygarth, p. 38.〕 Yalden's best performance with the bat was probably in September 1773 when he played for a Surrey XI ''versus'' a Hampshire XI at Broadhalfpenny Down. He scored 88 out of 225 and enabled Surrey to win the game by an innings and 60 runs.〔Haygarth, p. 60.〕 This innings was the "world record" for the highest individual score in first-class matches since the statistical record began in 1772. The previous highest was 78 by John Small in the first match of the 1772 season. Yalden's score was beaten by Joseph Miller, who made 95 at Sevenoaks Vine in August 1774. According to Arthur Haygarth, Yalden gave up cricket for one season because he thought his eyesight was failing, but the Earl of Tankerville said to him: "Try again, Yalden". So he resumed his career with continued success. The story may be apocryphal as Yalden certainly played continuously from 1772, though the incident could have occurred before then. Haygarth also reports that once, when fielding, Yalden had to jump over a fence and ended up on his back, but still caught the ball.〔 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「William Yalden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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