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
Charles Young (cricketer) Charles Young (cricketer) Charles Robertson Young (2 February 1852 – 12 April 1913) was an English first-class cricketer. Young was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium pace. He was born in Dharwar in the Kingdom of Mysore, then in the British Raj. Young made his Hampshire debut in 1867, aged just 15 years and 131 days. He was the youngest person to appear in English first-class cricket, a record which stood for 144 years until 27 May 2011, when Yorkshire's Barney Gibson debuted aged 15 years and 27 days. His first match for the county was against Kent where