Former Leicestershire captain Maurice Raymond Hallam died on 1 January aged 68. A stylish opening batsman, he played for Leicestershire from 1950 to 1970, scoring more than 22,000 first-class runs and captaining them from 1963 to 1965 and again in 1968. He scored 1,000 runs in a season 13 times, on three of those occasions going on to score over 2,000, and is one of only two English batsmen to have scored a double-century and a century in the same match twice.
Hallam coached cricket at Medbury Preparatory School and at Christ’s College, where his
influence over a three year period benefited a significant number of young cricketers in Christchurch.