{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Granny Alston | image = Hnaalston.jpg | country = England | fullname = Hallam Newton Egerton Alston | birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|6|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = Cheltenham, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|10|20|1908|6|10|df=yes}} | death_place = Gloucester, England | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm off-break | role = | club1 = Somerset | year1 = 1933 | type1 = First-class | onetype1 = true | debutdate1 = 26 July | debutyear1 = 1933 | debutfor1 = Somerset | debutagainst1 = Surrey | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 6 | bat avg1 = 3 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 4 | deliveries1 = 42 | wickets1 = 1 | bowl avg1 = 6.00 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 1/6 | catches/stumpings1 = 0/– | date = 20 August | year = 2008 | source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3402/3402.html CricketArchive }}
'''Hallam Newton Egerton '''"'''Granny'''"''' Alston''' (10 June 1908 – 20 October 1985) was an English cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for Somerset.
Alston made one appearance for Somerset during the 1933 season, against Surrey at The Oval. While he scored just two runs in the first innings of the game and four in the second, his bowling figures of 1-6 from seven overs were economical, and his only first-class wicket was that of 50-year-old former Test cricketer Jack Hobbs, though Hobbs had made 117 by the time he was out.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/14/14762.html | title = Surrey v Somerset |date = 26 July 1933 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 29 December 2008}}</ref>
Alston was a right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler.
In the Second World War, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Somerset Light Infantry.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=35216 |date=1941-07-11 | supp=y |page=3983 }}</ref> While on service, he played a non-first-class war-time cricket match for the Combined Services cricket team at Hull and took five London Counties wickets for 31 runs with his off-spin.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/136/136527.html | title = Combined Services v London Counties |date = 13 June 1943 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 1 March 2011}}</ref>
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