{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Richard Oliver Earnshaw | birth_date = 8 January 1939 | birth_place = Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1963|7|28|1939|1|8|df=yes}} | death_place = Westminster, London, England | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm fast-medium | role = | club1 = | year1 = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 2 | runs1 = 11 | bat avg1 = 5.50 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 9 | deliveries1 = 402 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = –/– | date = 16 March | year = 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/12588.html Cricinfo }}
'''Richard Oliver Earnshaw''' (8 January 1939 – 28 July 1963) was an English first-class cricketer.
While undertaking his National Service in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Earnshaw played first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team, making his debut against the touring South Africans at Portsmouth in 1960.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29202/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Richard Earnshaw |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-03-16 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He made a second first-class appearance in 1961, against Northamptonshire at Northampton.<ref name="FCM"/> He scored 11 runs across his two matches,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29202/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Richard Earnshaw |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-03-16 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> as well as bowling 67 wicketless overs with his right-arm fast-medium bowling, conceding 211 runs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29202/f_Bowling_by_Team.html |title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Richard Earnshaw |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-03-16 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
He died at Westminster in July 1963, aged just 24.
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