# Bev Lyon

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{{short description|English cricketer (1902–1970)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
|                name = Bev Lyon
|               image = Bev Lyon of Glos.png
|   caption           = 
|            fullname = Beverley Hamilton Lyon
|          birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|1|19|df=yes}}
|         birth_place = [Caterham](/source/Caterham), [Surrey](/source/Surrey), England
|          death_date = {{Death date and age|1970|6|22|1902|1|19|df=yes}}
|         death_place = [Balcombe](/source/Balcombe), Sussex, England
|            heightft = 
|          heightinch = 
| family              = [Dar Lyon](/source/Dar_Lyon) (brother)
|             batting = Right-handed
|             bowling = 
|                role = Batsman, captain
|               club1 = 
|               year1 =
|               club2 = 
|               year2 =
|             columns = 1
|             column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
|            matches1 = 267
|               runs1 = 10,694
|            bat avg1 = 24.98
|           100s/50s1 = 16/49
|          top score1 = 189
|         deliveries1 = 3,546
|            wickets1 = 52
|           bowl avg1 = 45.01
|            fivefor1 = 1
|             tenfor1 = 0
|       best bowling1 = 5/72
|  catches/stumpings1 = 266/–
|                date = 7 July
|                year = 2019
|              source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16396.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Beverley Hamilton Lyon''' (19 January 1902 – 22 June 1970) was an English [cricketer](/source/cricketer) who played for [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University_Cricket_Club) and [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16396.html |title=Beverley Lyon. England Cricket. Cricket Players and Officials |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |date= |access-date=2 February 2011}}</ref>  He was a bespectacled middle-order batsman and a fine close fielder who held forthright and, for his time, outspoken views on [cricket captaincy](/source/cricket_captaincy) and cricket traditions and who was given full rein by his county, Gloucestershire, to express his views as captain for six years from 1929.

==Biography==
Some of Lyon's views – on Sunday cricket and on a knockout cup, for instance – were by some distance too far ahead of their time. But in 1931, he was involved in a "rule-bending" match against [Yorkshire](/source/Yorkshire_County_Cricket_Club) at [Sheffield](/source/Bramall_Lane) in which, after two rain-ruined days, he and the Yorkshire captain agreed to declare their counties' first innings after one ball had been bowled to bring about a result on the second innings.<ref name=DF>[David Foot](/source/David_Foot_(journalist)), ''Beyond Bat & Ball: Eleven Intimate Portraits'', Aurum, London, 1993, pp. 139–56.</ref> The rules were changed for the following season to allow for a one-innings match in similar circumstances.

Lyon brought Gloucestershire greater success than the county had seen since the days of [W. G. Grace](/source/W._G._Grace).<ref name=DF/> In 1929 and 1930, they won more matches than any other county; in 1930 and 1931, they finished second. Lyon was aided, no doubt, by having [Wally Hammond](/source/Wally_Hammond), perhaps [England](/source/English_cricket_team)'s finest batsman of the time in the side. And the three years of success coincided as well with the last truly effective years of the great slow left-arm bowler [Charlie Parker](/source/Charlie_Parker_(cricketer)) and the first effective years of Parker's successor, the [off break](/source/off_break) bowler [Tom Goddard](/source/Tom_Goddard). But the captaincy of Lyon was regarded as a vital factor, and he was chosen as a [''Wisden'' Cricketer of the Year](/source/Wisden_Cricketer_of_the_Year) in 1931. The citation in [''Wisden''](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack) suggested that he might be a future [captain of England](/source/List_of_England_cricket_captains), but that did not happen.

Lyon's Gloucestershire career began in 1921; he also won a [Blue](/source/Blue_(university_sport)) at [Oxford](/source/Oxford_University_Cricket_Club) in 1922 and 1923. He resigned from the [Gloucestershire captaincy](/source/List_of_Gloucestershire_cricket_captains) after three more moderate years from 1932 to 1934, but played intermittently until 1947. He had also played [Minor Counties](/source/Minor_Counties) cricket for [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire_County_Cricket_Club) in 1920.

Lyon's older brother, [Malcolm Douglas Lyon](/source/Dar_Lyon), known as Dar, played for [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club) and [Somerset](/source/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club). The brothers were on opposing sides in the 1922 Varsity match.<ref>{{cite web | url-access=subscription |url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10524.html| title = Oxford University v Cambridge University 1922| publisher=CricketArchive| access-date =19 September 2022}}</ref> And in 1930, in the match between Somerset and Gloucestershire at [Taunton](/source/Taunton), Dar scored 210 after being dropped twice by Goddard, but Bev replied with a century of his own and led his side to victory by eight wickets.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1930/ENG_LOCAL/CC/SOMERSET_GLOUCS_CC_07-10JUN1930.html| title = Somerset v Gloucestershire 1930| publisher=ESPNcricinfo| access-date =19 September 2022}}</ref>

==See also==
*[List of select Jewish cricketers](/source/List_of_Jews_in_sports)

==References==
*S Canynge Caple (compiler). "Lyon, Beverley Hamilton". The Cricketers' Who's Who. Lincoln Williams (Publishers) Ltd. Adam Street, Adelphi, London. 1934. Pages 104 and 105.
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==External links==
* {{cricinfo|id=16396}}
*[http://www.rediffusion.info/BevLyon "Remembering Bev Lyon, Gloucestershire Cricketer and Co-Founder of Rediffusion Ltd."]

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Category:Wisden Cricketers of the Year
Category:People from Caterham
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Category:Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford
Category:English cricketers of 1919 to 1945
Category:20th-century English sportsmen
Category:People from Balcombe, West Sussex
Category:Cricketers from West Sussex

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