Egypt National Cricket Team - Players

Players

The only Egyptian native to play for the national team was Abdou Hassanein, who took 17 wickets in his two matches. John Traicos, who played Test cricket for South Africa and Zimbabwe, was born in Zagazig, Egypt. The following players played first-class cricket and played for Egypt:

• Geoffrey MacLaren – played for Lancashire in 1902.
• Richard More – played for Middlesex between 1901 and 1910.
• Geoffrey Rawson – played for the British Army cricket team in 1921.
• Basil Clarke – played for Gloucestershire between 1914 and 1920 and for Leicestershire in 1922.
• James Leaf – played for the Army in 1937.
• Philip Pank – played for the Army in 1925.
• Harold Hinde – played for the combined Minor Counties in 1924.
• Arthur Turner – played for Essex between 1897 and 1910.
• Ronald Joy – played for Essex between 1922 and 1928.
• Thomas Sturgess – played for the Europeans in India in the 1940s.
• Godfrey Firbank – played for the Combined Services in 1922 and for the Army in 1927.
• Eric Cole – played for Kent in 1938.
• Oswald Smith-Bingham – played first-class cricket in India in the 1930s.
• Francis Rogers – played for Gloucestershire between 1924 and 1931.
• Robert Osborne-Smith – played for the Indian Army in the 1930s.
• Robert Melsome – played for Gloucestershire between 1925 and 1938.
• Rodney Palmer – played for Hampshire between 1930 and 1933.
• Alexander Wilkinson – played for the MCC between 1914 and 1939.
• Joshua Chaytor – played for the Free Foresters in 1924.
• Archibald Cassels – played for the Army between 1932 and 1935.
• Rowland Musson – played for the Combined Services in 1937.
• Grahame Cruickshanks – played for Eastern Province in 1931/32.
• Edward Cawston – played for Sussex between 1928 and 1931.
• Thomas Halsey – played for Cambridge University in 1920.
• Cyril Hamilton – played for Kent in 1935.
• Jeff Linton – played for Glamorgan in 1932.
• Ronald Yeldham – played first-class cricket in India in the 1920s.
• Michael Packe – played for Leicestershire between 1936 and 1939.
• John Walford – played for Worcestershire between 1923 and 1930.
• Ralph Crake – played for the MCC in 1901.
• John Burrough – played for Cambridge University between 1893 and 1895.