{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Danny Livingstone | image = Danny_Livingstone.jpg | caption = Danny Livingstone in 1961 | alt = A black and white photo of an Afro-Caribbean cricketer | country = West Indies | fullname = Daintes Abbia Livingstone | nickname = Danny | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|9|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = St. John's,<br>British Leeward Islands | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|9|8|1933|9|21|df=yes}} | death_place = St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda | heightft = | heightinch = | batting = Left-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | club1 = Hampshire | year1 = {{nowrap|1959–1972}} | columns = 2 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 301 | runs1 = 12,722 | bat avg1 = 27.89 | 100s/50s1 = 16/65 | top score1 = 200 | deliveries1 = 140 | wickets1 = 1 | bowl avg1 = 93.00 | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 1/31 | catches/stumpings1 = 243/2 | column2 = List A | matches2 = 54 | runs2 = 1,044 | bat avg2 = 25.46 | 100s/50s2 = –/5 | top score2 = 92 | deliveries2 = 0 | wickets2 = – | bowl avg2 = – | fivefor2 = – | tenfor2 = – | best bowling2 = – | catches/stumpings2 = 14/– | date = 28 May | year = 2024 | source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/danny-livingstone-16311 Cricinfo }}
'''Daintes Abbia "Danny" Livingstone''' (21 September 1933 – 8 September 1988) was an Antiguan cricketer who played first-class cricket for Hampshire as a left-handed middle order batsman in nearly 300 first-class matches from 1959 to 1972. The first black West Indian to play for Hampshire, he was a member of their 1961 County Championship winning team and played in their first ever one-day match in 1963. In first-class cricket for Hampshire, he scored over 12,500 runs. He later managed the Combined Islands cricket team in the West Indies, and worked for the Government of Antigua and Barbuda as its Director of Sports.
==Early life== Livingstone was born at St. John's on the island of Antigua in September 1933. He was educated there at the Antigua Grammar School, before continuing his education in Canada at the Collegiate School, Toronto.<ref name="HCCC">{{cite web|url=https://www.utilitabowl.com/cricket/news/black-history-month-danny-livingstone/|title=Black History Month: Danny Livingstone|website=www.utilitabowl.com|date=13 October 1922|access-date=28 May 2024}}</ref> In 1953, he moved to London to undertake his two years of National Service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). While serving with the RAF, he played minor matches for the Royal Air Force cricket team.<ref name="HCCC"/> Having come to the attention of Warwickshire during his National Service, Livingstone played a full season for their second eleven in the 1957 Minor Counties Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6727/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Danny Livingstone|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=28 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> However, he was not engaged by Warwickshire at the end of the season, with the county feeling they had too many batsmen in their squad, coupled with concerns over Livingstone's stroke play.<ref name="HCCC"/>
==Career with Hampshire== ===Early years=== Livingstone spent 1958 in London playing club cricket, before coming to Hampshire for a nets trial at the start of the 1959 season.<ref name="HCCC"/> In July 1959, he made his debut in first-class cricket against Oxford University at Bournemouth,<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6727/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Danny Livingstone|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=29 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> thus becoming the first black West Indian to play for Hampshire.<ref name="HCCC"/> He qualified to play in the County Championship through residency prior to the 1960 season, with Livingstone expected to compete for a place in the Hampshire middle order.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000736/19600422/398/0030|title=Danny Livingstone|work=Portsmouth Evening News|page=30|date=22 April 1960|access-date=29 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> He played regularly for Hampshire in 1960, but did not fully establish himself in the team.<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228610.html|title=Wisden – Obituaries in 1988|date=5 December 2005 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=29 May 2024}}</ref> At the end of the season, he played for the Commonwealth XI against an England XI at Hastings.<ref name="FCM"/> In 1961, the year in which Hampshire won their first County Championship, Livingstone established himself in the side with 35 appearances.<ref name="FCM"/> It was also the first season in which he passed a thousand runs, making 1,643,<ref name="FCBAS">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6727/f_Batting_by_Season.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Danny Livingstone|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and made his maiden century (102 not out) against Northamptonshire.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000736/19610615/383/0031|title=Cricket|work=Portsmouth Evening News|page=31|date=15 June 1961|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> Later in the season, against Derbyshire in Hampshire's penultimate match of the season, it was Livingstone who caught Bob Taylor to make certain of their County Championship title.<ref name="OBIT"/>
In 1962, he made a further 31 first-class appearances.<ref name="FCM"/> Livingstone had his most successful season as a batsman,<ref name="OBIT"/> scoring 1,817 runs at an average of 37.08.<ref name="FCBAS"/> Against Surrey he made his highest career score of 200. His innings began in fortuitous circumstances, when he was dropped first ball. With Hampshire having reached 128 for 8, Alan Castell (76) joined Livingstone at the crease, with the pair putting on 230 for the ninth wicket.<ref name="OBIT"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/25/25787.html|title=Hampshire v Surrey, County Championship 1962|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=29 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> This remains, as of {{year}}, a Hampshire record partnership for that wicket.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/England/Firstclass/Hampshire/Partnership_Records/Highest_Partnership_Each_Wicket_For.html|title=Highest Partnership for Each Wicket for Hampshire|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Earlier in the season he had made an unbeaten century against the touring Pakistanis, an innings in which according to ''Wisden'', he was "untroubled".<ref name="OBIT"/> Further success followed in 1963, with Livingstone again passing a thousand runs (1,503) for the season.<ref name="FCBAS"/> He made 151 runs against the touring West Indians, which helped to set up and enthralling end to the match which saw the West Indians reduced to their last two batsman and ten Hampshire fielders close-in to them;<ref name="OBIT"/> the match ended in a draw.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/26/26194.html|title=Hampshire v West Indians, West Indies in British Isles 1963|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was a member of the Hampshire eleven who played in the county's inaugural List A one-day match against Derbyshire in the 1963 Gillette Cup.<ref name="LAM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6727/List_A_Matches.html|title=List A Matches played by Danny Livingstone|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
===Struggles with consistency=== Livingstone's consistent form continued into 1964,<ref name="OBIT"/> where in his thirty matches he scored 1,671 runs at an average of 35.55.<ref name="FCBAS"/> Against Kent in August 1964, he made back-to-back centuries with scores of 117 and 105 not out at Canterbury;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/26/26979.html|title=Kent v Hampshire, County Championship 1964|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> in doing so, he became Hampshire's leading run scorer for the season, supplanting Roy Marshall who been Hampshire's leading run-scorer in the two previous seasons.<ref name="OBIT"/> Despite a consistent start to his Hampshire career,<ref name="OBIT"/> his form badly fell away in 1965 with him scoring 680 runs at an average of 18.88, from 23 matches.<ref name="FCBAS"/> His returns in 1966 were only slightly better in first-class cricket. Notably at Bournemouth in a County Championship match against Middlesex, Livingstone (116) and Henry Horton (148 not out) put on 272 runs for the third wicket,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19660819/004/0001|title=Hants record|work=Liverpool Echo|page=1|date=19 August 1966|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> which as of {{year}} remains a Hampshire record for that wicket against Middlesex.<ref name="PART">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/England/Firstclass/Hampshire/Partnership_Records/Highest_Partnerships_Hampshire_v_Middlesex.html|title=Highest Partnerships For Hampshire Against Middlesex|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Against Lincolnshire in the 1966 Gillette Cup first round, he made his highest career one-day score with 92, and shared in a partnership of 124 runs for the third wicket with Horton, who made 54. Livingstone was declared Man of the Match for his performance, for which he was awarded £50 by Bill Edrich.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001121/19660506/015/0015|title=Fine show|work=Grimsby Daily Telegraph|page=15|date=6 May 1966|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
Livingstone passed a thousand runs for the season in 1967,<ref name="OBIT"/> the first time he had done so since 1964, and scored two centuries.<ref name="FCBAS"/> Against Nottinghamshire in the County Championship in May, he deputised midway through the match for wicket-keeper Brian Timms, who had broken his nose when keeping to Peter Sainsbury. The ''Nottingham Guardian'' remarked that he "performed very creditably" keeping-wicket.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004722/19670526/010/0010|title=Hampshire v. Nottinghamshire|work=Nottingham Guardian|page=10|date=26 May 1967|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> After featuring in only eighteen first-class matches in 1968,<ref name="FCM"/> Livingstone featured 26 times in first-class cricket in 1969,<ref name="FCM"/> while featuring extensively in the first season of the one-day Sunday League.<ref name="LAM"/> He also played for D. H. Robins' personal team against Oxford University at Eastbourne.<ref name="FCM"/> During the off-season in November 1969, he managed to secure himself employment for the winter back in London at the Hackney Employment Exchange.<ref name="TIMES">{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS84374750/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=126e1084|title=Cricketer is cleared of conspiracy to cheat|work=The Times|location=London|page=5|issue=58212|date=30 June 1971|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=Gale}}</ref> Livingstone made 1,020 runs in 1970,<ref name="FCM"/> which would be the final time he would reach the milestone of a thousand runs in a season.<ref name="FCBAS"/> At the beginning of the season, he made his final first-class century, making 103 runs against Middlesex in a partnership of 263 for the fourth with Marshall; as of 2024 this remains a Hampshire record for that wicket against Middlesex.<ref name="PART"/> He once again featured extensively for Hampshire that season in one-day cricket, making fourteen appearances in John Player League.<ref name="LAM"/> ''Wisden'' noted that by 1970, his consistency as a batsman had deserted him.<ref name="OBIT"/> During the season, he voiced his concerns on the proposed South African tour of England in 1970, following the D'Oliveira affair.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS34173611/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=99f39bc8|title=Crisis of conscience for coloured players|first=Peter|last=Evans|work=The Times|location=London|page=2|issue=57866|date=11 May 1970|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=Gale}}</ref>
===Legal issues and later cricket=== Midway through the 1970 season, Livingstone was charged by the Metropolitan Police with conspiring between 6 November 1969 and 26 March 1970 to cheat and defraud the Department of Social Security of £1,095.15s.<ref name="NEWS">{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS34435832/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=b8672793|title=Cricketer sent for trial|work=The Times|location=London|page=2|issue=57926|date=24 July 1970|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=Gale}}</ref> It was alleged that he had conspired to submit false and fraudulent claims for supplementary benefit.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS34829513/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=875660ad|title=County cricketer accused of plot to defraud|work=The Times|location=London|page=2|issue=58194|date=9 June 1971|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=Gale}}</ref> After an initial hearing at Old Street Magistrates Court, his case was sent for trial at the Old Bailey for June 1971.<ref name="NEWS"/> Following a trial he was found not guilty, reportedly sobbing when the verdict was delivered.<ref name="TIMES"/> Hampshire had been due to grant Livingstone his benefit worth "many thousands of pounds" in 1971, but the trial had put this on-hold.<ref name="TIMES"/> Prior to the trials commencement, he featured in seven first-class matches, but just two more after its conclusion.<ref name="FCM"/> He also featured in five matches in the 1971 John Player League.<ref name="LAM"/> He was granted his benefit the following season,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19710717/303/0021|title=Benefit match|work=Liverpool Echo|page=21|date=17 July 1971|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> but did not even play in his benefit match against Surrey.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4clHEAAAQBAJ|title=Test of Character|last=Murtagh|first=Andrew|author-link=Andy Murtagh|publisher=Pitch Publishing Limited|location=Brighton|page=119|year=2016|isbn=9781785312427|language=en}}</ref> In 1972, he featured in just three first-class and two one-day matches.<ref name="LAM"/> It had been decided earlier in the season that the contracts of Livingstone and fast bowler Butch White would not be extended.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19720429/036/0002|title=End of an era for Hampshire|work=Aberdeen Evening Express|page=2|date=29 April 1972|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
In 299 first-class matches for Hampshire, Livingstone scored 12,660 runs at an average of 27.94; he made sixteen centuries, alongside 65 fifties.<ref name="FCBAT">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6727/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Danny Livingstone|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was described by ''Wisden'' as "an attacking batsman".<ref name="OBIT"/> He took one first-class wicket, that of Ken Barrington in the final match of his career in 1968.<ref name="HCCC"/> A capable fielder, he took 240 catches and occasionally kept-wicket.<ref name="FCBAT"/><ref name="HCCC"/> In one-day cricket, he made 54 appearances, scoring 1,044 runs at an average of 25.46.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6727/a_Batting_by_Team.html|title=List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Danny Livingstone|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
==Later life and death== Livingstone returned to Antigua when he retired from playing, and worked for the government as Director of Sports, where he did much to further the development of cricket and football in Antigua and Barbuda.<ref name="OBIT"/> He continued to play cricket at a minor level for Antigua in the inter-island Hesketh Bell Shield, briefly captaining the side.<ref name="OBIT"/> In 1973, he played an important role alongside Lester Bird in persuading Len Creed, vice chairman at Somerset, who was in Antigua at the time as part of a West Country touring side, to take Viv Richards.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqUpkdmCJWMC|title=A Spirit of Dominance|first=Hilary|last=Beckles|author-link=Hilary Beckles|publisher=Canoe Press|location=Kingston|page=65|year=1998|isbn=9789768125378|language=en}}</ref> Later in the 1970s, he managed the Combined Islands cricket team.<ref name="HCCC"/> With the Combined Islands team being divided into the Leeward Islands and Windward Islands cricket team's in 1981, Livingstone would later coach the Leeward Islands team.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500252054/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=3285abbc|title=No fielding in the cow slips as dog take French leave|first=John|last=Woodcock|author-link=John Woodcock (cricket writer)|work=The Times|location=London|page=26|issue=62374|date=7 February 1986|access-date=30 May 2024|url-access=subscription|via=Gale}}</ref> After returning to Antigua he married, becoming the father of five children.<ref name="HCCC"/> Livingstone died at St John's in September 1988, aged 54.<ref name="OBIT"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=16311}}
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