Fred Rumsey

Fred Rumsey

Frederick Edward Rumsey (born 4 December 1935, Stepney, London, England) is an English former cricketer, who played five Test matches for England in the mid 1960s. He is also notable for having played almost exclusively in one-day cricket for the last five years of his career. Purely a bowler, his batting was poor and he did not reach fifty once in more than 200 first-class innings.

Rumsey played county cricket for Worcestershire, Somerset and Derbyshire. The cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted, "built like a battering ram with finesse to match, Fred Rumsey crashed on to the Test scene for a few vividly entertaining performances of left-arm fast bowling when England were hit by injuries".