Norman Stewart Mitchell-Innes, known as Mandy Mitchell-Innes (September 7, 1914 - December 28, 2006) was an English cricketer who played in one Test in May 1935. He became England's oldest surviving Test cricketer on 7 October 2001, on the death of Alf Gover. Following his own death, that distinction passed to Ken Cranston, who himself died a few days later. Mitchell-Innes was also the last surviving English cricketer to have played Test cricket ...
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Norman Stewart Mitchell-Innes, known as Mandy Mitchell-Innes (September 7, 1914 - December 28, 2006) was an English cricketer who played in one Test in May 1935. He became England's oldest surviving Test cricketer on 7 October 2001, on the death of Alf Gover. Following his own death, that distinction passed to Ken Cranston, who himself died a few days later. Mitchell-Innes was also the last surviving English cricketer to have played Test cricket before the Second World War.
Mitchell-Innes was born in Calcutta, where his father was a businessman of Scottish descent. He returned to England with his family at the age of 5 to live in Somerset. He was educated at Sedbergh School, where he was a precocious schoolboy batsman - he scored 302 in a house match in one afternoon. He played for Somerset against Warwickshire at Taunton in August 1931, while still a 16 year old schoolboy, returning by overnight train from a golf tournament in Scotland. He won an exhibition to read law at Brasenose...
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