Paul Lyndhurst Winslow
(1929-2011)

Paul Lyndhurst Winslow

Born: 21 May 1929, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Marriage (1): Moira Birrell Gray on 22 Oct 1955 ⁸⁰
Died: 24 May 2011, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa aged 82

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Spouses/Children:

1. Moira Birrell Gray

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bullet Birth Notes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Winslow_(cricketer)

bullet Death Notes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Winslow_(cricketer)

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http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/47912.htmll

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Winslow_(cricketer)

• Sport. Played cricket for South Africa.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/47912.htmll

• Obituary. Paul Winslow, who has died in Johannesburg at the age of 82, was a Springbok cricketer and no-nonsense middle-order batsman who hit one of the most spectacular sixes in the history of Test cricket.

It was in 1955 at Old Trafford in England, the third of a five-Test series against the most formidable cricketing nation in the world at that time.

South Africa had lost the first two Tests and were 245 for five in the first innings of the third in response to England's 284. Winslow, one of the most aggressive batsmen in the game, joined wicketkeeper Johnny Waite in the middle.

After being dropped at 64 and hitting a two to take South Africa to 400, Winslow's score stood at 96. He'd never made a century in first-class cricket before, and spectators, including some of his teammates, expected him to approach this milestone with suitable caution.

But Winslow, who based his game on the cheerful belief that "everything is sweetened by risk", had other ideas. Facing his next ball, he advanced up the pitch and drove English spin bowler Tony Lock straight over the sightscreen into the car-park some 50m outside the ground.

The crowd erupted. Legendary English captain Denis Compton later described it as the most "riotously acclaimed" six he'd ever witnessed in his career, and it is still spoken about at Old Trafford.

Winslow was out for 108, and he and Waite recorded a sixth-wicket partnership of 171.

In the second innings, he hit a brutal 16, two sixes and a four, to help South Africa to victory with nine balls to spare.

It was the first time England had been beaten at Old Trafford since 1902.

South Africa won the fourth Test to draw the series 2-2, but lost the final one and the series.

Bespectacled and an imposing 1.93m (6ft 4in) tall, Winslow made his Test debut in the fourth Test against the 1949/50 Australian side at Ellis Park. He played in five Tests, but never repeated his Old Trafford heroics.

The closest he came was 81 and 139 for Rhodesia against the 1957/8 Australians in what was then Salisbury.

Winslow played provincial cricket for Transvaal, and English country cricket for Sussex. He retired at the end of the 1959/60 season at the age of 30, having scored 2755 runs in 75 first-class matches at an average of 23.34.

Winslow was born in Johannesburg on May 21 1929. His father, Charles, won two Olympic gold medals for tennis (Oslo, 1912). His mother, Olive, was the South African singles, doubles and mixed doubles tennis champion and said to be the first woman player to show an ankle at Wimbledon.

His brother, Peter, who died four years ago, was a Springbok hockey player.

He was educated at King Edward VII School in Houghton, where he was head boy, captained the school's athletics and cricket teams, and played centre for the first rugby XV.

After matriculating, he returned to the school as a sports master. Later, he went to Rhodesia to open a sports shop, but when that didn't work out, he joined SA Breweries and became their head of sports sponsorship.

He married English stage actress Moira Birrell Gray, whom he met on the 1955 tour of England.

Tragedy struck when their 18-year-old daughter, Carey, died of lupus in 1977.

In 1985, another daughter, a 13-year-old son and two grandchildren aged two and four, were killed when a speeding Porsche ploughed into them.

Naturally cheerful, outgoing and sociable, Winslow, whose family meant everything to him, became something of a recluse after that.

He died after breaking his hip and suffering heart failure in hospital. He is survived by his widow, Moira, who started Drive Alive, and their daughter Lesley.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/cricket/2011/06/05/obituary-paul-winslow-heroic-sa-cricketer

Paul married Moira Birrell Gray on 22 Oct 1955.⁸⁰

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