Phil Sharpe (cricketer) Phil Sharpe (cricketer) Philip John Sharpe (27 December 1936 – 20 May 2014) was an English cricketer, who played in twelve Tests from 1963 to 1969, and was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1963. He played all of his county cricket for Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and played in Minor counties cricket for Norfolk. However he was despised by Geoff Boycott because of what Boycott perceived as his “social, rather weak and insipid attitude towards cricket”. The cricketing correspondent, Colin Bateman, remarked, "Phil Sharpe was possibly unique in that he was selected by England for his exceptional
James Young (cricketer) in 1949-50, 1950–51 and 1952–53, his last season, when he also took his best bowling figures, 5 for 35, in another victory over Orange Free State. James Young (cricketer) James Oswald Young (28 June 1913 – 7 March 1994) was a South African cricketer who played first-class cricket for Eastern Province from 1936 to 1953. In 1947-48, in his first match as Eastern Province captain, Young scored one of the fastest centuries in South African cricket, against Orange Free State. Going to the wicket on the first day of the match with the score at 48 for 6, he reached