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Harold Stephenson (Harold William Stephenson) was born on 18 July, 1920 in Haverton Hill, County Durham, England, is an English first-class cricketer. Discover Harold Stephenson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 18 July, 1920
Birthday 18 July
Birthplace Haverton Hill, County Durham, England
Date of death 23 April, 2008
Died Place England
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1920

Harold William Stephenson (18 July 1920 – 23 April 2008) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Somerset.

1947

Stephenson was born (as William Harold Stephenson) in Haverton Hill, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham and played Minor Counties cricket for Durham in 1947, succeeding Dick Spooner, who had been recruited by Warwickshire, as wicketkeeper.

1948

Stephenson in turn was recruited by Somerset in 1948, having been recommended to the county by Micky Walford, the amateur batsman and schoolmaster who also came from Stockton.

Stephenson joined Somerset for the 1948 season, but played in only eight matches.

He kept wicket in only two of them, and was used mostly as an opening batsman, not with any great success.

The following season, however, he succeeded the long-serving Wally Luckes as the regular wicketkeeper and, despite missing half a dozen matches, he set a new county record for dismissals, with 39 catches and 44 stumpings for Somerset (plus two more catches in an end-of-season representative match).

The number of stumpings remains a Somerset record.

Wisden said that he "exceeded expectations" and added: "Some of his stumpings off the slow bowlers were remarkably clever and quick enough to suggest optical tests for umpires."

He also made more than 700 runs, batting mostly down the batting order at No 7 or No 8.

1949

That 1949 season set the pattern for Stephenson: he was at or near the top of the wicketkeepers' lists for dismissals for the next decade, setting the Somerset record with 86 dismissals in 1954.

Somerset wicketkeepers have made 70 or more dismissals in a season 16 times, and Stephenson accounts for exactly half of those.

In addition, his batting developed.

1950

In the mid-1950s, he was batting higher in the order, often at No 3, though this was partly due to the weakness of the Somerset side, which finished bottom of the County Championship for four consecutive seasons from 1952 to 1955.

Playing for a weak team may not have helped Stephenson's representative career, though England were not short of outstanding wicketkeepers in this period.

The nearest he got to Test honours was as part of a Commonwealth team that toured India in 1950–51, when he took part in two of the "unofficial Tests" and headed the batting averages for the tour as a whole.

Stephenson was first-choice wicketkeeper for Somerset throughout the 1950s, but he missed much of the county's most successful season for 66 years: the 1958 season, when the side finished third in the County Championship.

Injured for much of the year, he played only 11 out of 28 Championship matches.

He was a character in a side that, in Somerset's bad days of the 1950s, was unusually short of personalities.

1952

In 1952, he made the first of what would prove to be seven career centuries with 114 against Glamorgan at Swansea, with four sixes and 11 fours.

He passed 1,000 runs for the season for the first time in 1952, and then did so in each of the next four seasons.

1955

In 1955–56 he toured Pakistan with a Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) "A" side and played in two of the "representative matches" against what was close to being a full Pakistan Test side.

1958

In his absence, the side was captained by the veteran Australian Alley, and Peter Eele, who had deputised for Stephenson in the injury-hit 1958 season, returned to keep wicket.

1959

But he returned fully fit for the 1959 season, though his batting was less impressive in that season and he passed 50 only once.

At end of the 1959 season, Maurice Tremlett, who had been Somerset's captain since 1956, the first professional to hold the job in modern times, stood down from the job.

Candidates to succeed Tremlett included Colin McCool and Bill Alley, two Australians associated with Somerset's recent successes, but 44 and 41 years old respectively.

Stephenson, at 39, was not much younger, but was chosen.

1960

He captained Somerset from 1960 until his retirement in 1964.

Stephenson is easily the most successful wicket-keeper in history for Somerset, and is the county's only cricketer to have taken 1000 dismissals.

He also holds the county record for the most stumpings in a season as well as most catches in a season.

He made his wicketkeeping reputation standing up to the stumps and taking tricky spin bowling from Johnny Lawrence, Ellis Robinson, and later Colin McCool, but in his 40s he proved he was no slouch standing back to faster bowlers as Somerset's attack turned successfully to seam in the early 1960s.

1962

He hit his own highest score, an unbeaten 147 in 200 minutes with one six and 19 fours, against Nottinghamshire at Bath in 1962, within two weeks of his 42nd birthday.

1963

Combative and chatty, Stephenson stayed in the captain's job for five seasons and was successful: in 1963 he led the side to third place in the County Championship, equalling the best-ever and the team, which had relied across the 1950s primarily on spin for wickets, developed in Ken Palmer and Fred Rumsey two fast bowlers good enough to play fleetingly for England.

Stephenson's own contribution behind the wicket and with the bat remained high.

1964

Stephenson played in the first few first-class matches of the 1964 season as Somerset captain and wicketkeeper, but was then injured.

Stephenson appears to have expected to return to both the captaincy and the wicketkeeping role, but he was unable to do so in the 1964 season.

1965

At the end of the season Somerset appointed Colin Atkinson, the Millfield schoolmaster (and a fellow Teessider) as captain for the 1965 season and recruited Geoff Clayton, the Lancashire wicketkeeper, as first-choice.

Stephenson retired from first-class cricket, apparently with some reluctance.

Stephenson continued to live in Taunton, but from 1965 to 1968 played regular Minor Counties cricket for Dorset.

"(He) didn't return too often to the County Ground," says one account.

A dapper, chatty cricketer with pads that always appeared a size too big for him, Stephenson was known throughout his county career as "Steve".