Fred Price (cricketer)

Wilfred Frederick Frank Price (25 April 1902 – 13 January 1969) was a cricketer who played for Middlesex County Cricket Club from 1926 to 1947. Price also stood as an umpire from 1950 to 1967. He played in one Test match and officiated as an umpire in eight.

Fred Price

Price (right) in 1936
Personal information
Born	25 April 1902 Westminster, London
Died	13 January 1969 (aged 66) Hendon, Greater London
Batting	Right-handed
International information
National side	England
Only Test	22 July 1938 v Australia
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class Matches 1 402 Runs scored 6 9,035 Batting average 3.00 18.32 100s/50s 0/0 3/36 Top score 6 111 Catches/stumpings 2/0 668/322
Source: CricketArchive, 6 November 2022

Price was a wicket-keeper who took 648 catches and 316 stumpings in his first-class career. He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1940.

Price was unfortunate to be around in the same era as Les Ames, which limited Price's opportunities for an international career. He toured abroad twice, once with the Honourable Freddie Calthorpe's side in 1929/30, when he went as a replacement for Rony Stanyforth, and then on a non-Test tour to South America in 1937/8.

Price's reputation as an umpire was as someone who would stand up strongly for what he felt was right. He once no-balled Tony Lock, the Surrey and England spin bowler for throwing against India. He also lay down at square-leg, refusing to get up, to stop barracking at a Surrey-Yorkshire game.