Recently I purchased this signed paper image of Frank
McHugh who was one of a few Leeds born cricketers and who only
played three matches for Yorkshire in 1949.
He was born in Burmantofts on the 15 November 1925
and died on the 21 February 2018 aged 92 .He was a 6 foot 3
inch right arm fast bowler. Initially Frank came into the
Yorkshire side when Ron Aspinall was injured. His debut
was against Essex at Headingley .His record with the ball
for Yorkshire was four wickets costing 147.With the
presence of Coxon, Trueman and Appleyard ,he could
not even play in the Second Eleven in 1950.
He then moved on to Gloucestershire where he took
276 wickets in his career at average of 24.84
Consequently McHugh became with George Lambert
the best pace attack the county had known. In 1954
he took 92 wickets for exactly 20 runs and in 1955
did almost as well with over 75 wickets ,whilst in
1956 his average fell further to only 19 runs a wicket.
McHugh suffered from illness during 1956 and did not
play after June but bowled well in his last match taking
11 wickets for 112 runs. However he was discarded in 1957
for David Smith. who went on to play 357 matches for
the county.
McHugh 's batting was consistently inept. His average
was 2.63 is the lowest by any first class cricketer to
play more than fifty first class games. His highest score
was 18.
He moved to Bristol and played club cricket for Bristol
Optimists.
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