Ian Prior was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. He was born in Battersea

Battersea

Battersea is an area of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is an inner-city district of South London, situated on the south side of the River Thames, 2.9 miles south-west of Charing Cross. Battersea spans from Fairfield in the west to Queenstown in the east...

 and died in Ipswich

Ipswich

Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell...

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Prior made 3 first class appearances for the Minor Counties. The first was against the West Indies in 1966, the second against Pakistan batting in the lower order alongside Norman Mcvicker,Prior scored 21 runs in the first innings and a duck in the second and finally against Australia in 1968. e

Prior made a single List A appearance, for Suffolk

Suffolk County Cricket Club

Suffolk County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Suffolk....

, during the 1966 Gillette Cup, having played Minor Counties cricket since 1953 with Suffolk and Essex's Second XI. Prior continued to play for Suffolk in the Minor Counties Championship until 1968.

External links

• Ian Prior at Cricket Archive