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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Bev Lyon
| image =
| caption =
| fullname = Beverley Hamilton Lyon
| nickname = Bev
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|1|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Caterham]], [[Surrey]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1970|6|22|1902|1|19|df=yes}}
| death_place= [[Balcombe]], Sussex, England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| family = [[Dar Lyon|Malcolm Douglas Lyon]] {{small|(brother)}}

| batting = Right handed
| bowling = -
| role = Batsman

| international = false
| country = England
| club1 =
| year1 =

| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches1 = 267
| runs1 = 10,694
| bat avg1 = 24.98
| 100s/50s1 = 16/49
| top score1 = 189
| deliveries1 = 3,546
| wickets1 = 52
| bowl avg1 = 45.01
| fivefor1 = 1
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 5/72
| catches/stumpings1 = 266/–

| date = 7 July
| year = 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16396.html ESPNCricinfo.com
}}

'''Beverley Hamilton Lyon''' (19 January 1902 – 22 June 1970) was a [[cricketer]] who played for [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] and [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16396.html |title=Beverley Lyon | England Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials |publisher=ESPN Cricinfo |date= |accessdate=2 February 2011}}</ref> He was a bespectacled middle-order batsman and a fine close fielder who held forthright and, for his time, outspoken views on [[cricket captaincy]] and cricket traditions and who was given full rein by his county, Gloucestershire, to express his views as captain for six years from 1929.

==Biography==
Some of Lyon's views – on Sunday cricket and on a knockout cup, for instance – were by some distance too far ahead of their time. But in 1931, he was involved in a "rule-bending" match against [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] at [[Bramall Lane|Sheffield]] in which, after two rain-ruined days, he and the Yorkshire captain agreed to declare their counties' first innings after one ball had been bowled to bring about a result on the second innings. The rules were changed for the following season to allow for a one-innings match in similar circumstances.

Lyon brought Gloucestershire greater success than the county had seen since the days of [[W. G. Grace]]. In 1929 and 1930, they won more matches than any other county; in 1930 and 1931, they finished second. Lyon was aided, no doubt, by having [[Wally Hammond]], perhaps [[English cricket team|England]]'s finest batsman of the time in the side. And the three years of success coincided as well with the last truly effective years of the great slow left-arm bowler [[Charlie Parker (cricketer)|Charlie Parker]] and the first effective years of Parker's successor, the [[off break]] bowler [[Tom Goddard]]. But the captaincy of Lyon was regarded as a vital factor, and he was chosen as a [[Wisden Cricketer of the Year]] in 1931. The citation in [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]] suggested that he might be a future [[List of England cricket captains|captain of England]], but that did not happen.

Lyon's Gloucestershire career began in 1921; he also won a [[Blue (university sport)|Blue]] at [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford]] in 1922 and 1923. He resigned from the [[List of Gloucestershire cricket captains|Gloucestershire captaincy]] after three more moderate years from 1932 to 1934, but played intermittently until 1947. He had also played [[Minor Counties]] cricket for [[Wiltshire County Cricket Club|Wiltshire]] in 1920.

Lyon's older brother, [[Dar Lyon|Malcolm Douglas Lyon]], known as Dar, played for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] and [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]]. The brothers were on opposing sides in the 1922 Varsity match. And in 1930, in the match between Somerset and Gloucestershire at [[Taunton]], Dar scored 210 after being dropped twice by Goddard, but Bev replied with a century of his own and led his side to victory by eight wickets.

==See also==
*[[List of Jews in sports#Cricket|List of select Jewish cricketers]]

==References==
* Wisden, passim
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==External links==
* {{cricinfo|ref=england/content/player/16396.html}}
* {{cricketarchive|ref=Archive/Players/13/13983/13983.html}}
*[http://www.rediffusion.info/BevLyon "Remembering Bev Lyon, Gloucestershire Cricketer and Co-Founder of Rediffusion Ltd."]

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