Roy Collins (10 March 1934 – 5 November 2009) was an English cricketer. Collins was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Clayton, Manchester, Lancashire.
Overview
Roy Collins (10 March 1934 – 5 November 2009) was an English cricketer. Collins was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Clayton, Manchester, Lancashire.
Lancashire
Collins joined the Lancashire Cricket Federation in its foundation year. He made his first-class debut for Lancashire in the County Championship against Hampshire at the United Services Recreation Ground in Portsmouth in August 1954.
Even before making his first class debut, Collins had acted as the de facto twelfth man for England against Pakistan in the Old Trafford Test that started on 22 July 1954. Jim Parks had been chosen as the twelfth man. But when Frank Lowson got injured, Parks played and Collins acted as the emergency fielder. At this point, Collins had played for the Lancashire senior team only in a two day match against North Wales.
From 1954 to 1962, Collins made 119 first-class appearances for Lancashire, with his final appearance coming in the 1962 County Championship against Sussex. He also played for the Lancashire Second XI during this period, who themselves played at that time in the Minor Counties Championship, thereby allowing Collins to represent a combined Minor Counties team against the touring South Africans in 1960, a match in which he scored 96 runs in the Minor Counties first-innings.
