Dick Richards (cricketer)

Dick Stanley Richards (10 September 1908 – 13 November 1995) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Bognor, Sussex.

Richards made his first-class debut for Sussex against Worcestershire in the 1927 County Championship at the County Ground, Hove. He made seventeen further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Surrey in the 1935 County Championship at The Saffrons, Eastbourne.[1] In his eighteen first-class appearances for the county, he scored 220 runs at an average of 10.00, with a high score of 23.[2] With the ball, he bowled a total of 63 overs, but took just a single wicket,[3] that of Surrey's Stan Squires, in what was Richards' final first-class appearance.[4]

Richards stood as an umpire in four first-class matches from 1932 to 1934.[5] He also stood in 55 Minor Counties Championship matches from 1953 to 1964.[6]

He died at Worthing, Sussex, on 13 November 1995.[7] His brother-in-law, Jim Parks, played Test cricket for England, while Henry Parks, also his brother-in-law, played first-class cricket, as did his great-nephew, Bobby Parks. His nephew, Jim Parks, Jr., also played Test cricket for England.