Alan Hobbs

{{short description|English cricketer (1944–2025)}}

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Alan David Hobbs (11 March 1944 – 13 February 2025) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Cambridgeshire. He was born in Cambridge.

Hobbs made a single List A appearance for the team, during the 1965 Gillette Cup, scoring 4 runs against Warwickshire.{{cite web |title=Cambs vs Warwickshire, 1st Round, Birmingham, April 28 - 29, 1965 |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/gillette-cup-england-1965-252442/warwickshire-vs-cambridgeshire-1st-round-368661/full-scorecard |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=1 April 2025}} He also made three appearances in the Minor Counties Championship for Cambridgeshire.{{cite web |title=Alan Hobbs |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/34/34669/34669.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=1 April 2025 |url-access=subscription}}

Hobbs was from a cricketing family with his great-uncle being Jack Hobbs.{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Mark |title=Alan Hobbs still going strong at Cambridge Granta |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWGLNB&req_dat=1054640702C8DBC0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F171711709B0747F0 |access-date=1 April 2025 |work=Cambridge Independent |via=Newsbank |date=24 July 2017 |url-access=subscription}} Alan Hobbs' father, Ernest, played for Cambridgeshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1927 and 1938 and worked 40 years as groundsman at Clare College Sports Ground where Cambridge Granta Cricket Club were based.{{cite web |title=Ernest Hobbs |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/178/178385/178385.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=1 April 2025 |url-access=subscription}}{{cite news |last1=Vaughton |first1=Michael |title=Alan Hobbs celebrating 50 years at Cambridge Granta |url=https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/sport/other-sport/alan-hobbs-celebrating-50-years-13491474 |access-date=1 April 2025 |work=Cambridge News |date=18 August 2017}} After his own three-year stint as assistant groundsman at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Alan Hobbs returned to Cambridge Granta where he served as captain and first-team manager in over 50 years of involvement with the club. He died in February 2025, at the age of 80.