Ernest Tyldesley

(George) Ernest Tyldesley (born February 5, 1889, Roe Green, Worsley, Lancashire, England; died May 5 1962, Rhos-on-Sea, Denbighshire, Wales) was the younger brother of Johnny Tyldesley and the leading batsman in Lancashire's formidable batting sides of that late 1920s which broke Yorkshire's inter-war monopoly on the County Championship. He surpassed even his brother's run-scoring feats for Lancashire - though on much less fiery pitches - and remains Lancashire's most prolific run-getter of all time. As a batsman, he was much more defensive than his elder brother but still possessed an excellent range of scoring strokes and the sound, quick-footed technique that was necessary on the many sticky wickets of Lancashire was very much in evidence.

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• Test batting statistics
• First-class batting statistics