Richard Earnshaw

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| country = England

| fullname = Richard Oliver Earnshaw

| birth_date = 8 January 1939

| birth_place = Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1963|7|28|1939|1|8|df=yes}}

| death_place = Westminster, London, England

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| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium

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| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 2

| runs1 = 11

| bat avg1 = 5.50

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 9

| deliveries1 = 402

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

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| date = 16 March

| year = 2019

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/12588.html Cricinfo

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Richard Oliver Earnshaw (8 January 1939 – 28 July 1963) was an English first-class cricketer.

While undertaking his National Service in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Earnshaw played first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team, making his debut against the touring South Africans at Portsmouth in 1960.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29202/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Richard Earnshaw |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-03-16 |url-access=subscription}} He made a second first-class appearance in 1961, against Northamptonshire at Northampton. He scored 11 runs across his two matches,{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29202/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Richard Earnshaw |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-03-16 |url-access=subscription}} as well as bowling 67 wicketless overs with his right-arm fast-medium bowling, conceding 211 runs.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29202/f_Bowling_by_Team.html |title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Richard Earnshaw |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-03-16 |url-access=subscription}}

He died at Westminster in July 1963, aged just 24.