John Colin Theodore Page was an English cricketer, cricket coach and manager.
16 Facts About Colin Page
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Colin Page played for Kent County Cricket Club as a right-arm bowler between 1950 and 1963.
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Colin Page was later the manager and coach of Kent and the director of youth coaching at the club and is considered to have been a major factor behind the success of the county side during the 1970s.
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Colin Page first appeared for Kent's Second XI in 1948, before being taken on by the side as a fast-medium bowler in 1949.
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Colin Page made his senior debut for the side in 1950, and six matches that season were followed by three in 1951, but he was not impressing as a fast bowler.
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Colin Page began to transition to bowling off spin in 1952 and soon broke into the side on a more regular basis, playing 18 matches and taking 61 wickets during the season.
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Colin Page continued to play regularly for Kent's First XI until 1959 and was awarded his county cap in 1957, although during the winter he worked at a paper mill in Aylesford.
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Colin Page's side won the Second XI Championship three times, and future England internationals Alan Knott, Derek Underwood, Mike Denness and Brian Luckhurst all passed through the team.
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Colin Page played occasionally for the First XI, making 11 appearances between 1960 and 1963, and was still playing Second XI cricket in 1974.
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In total Page made 198 first-class appearances, taking 521 wickets at an average of 28.72.
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Colin Page was a poor batsman and scored only 818 runs at an average of 5.48 runs per innings.
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Colin Page was particularly instrumental in promoting Brian Luckhurst to the county's First XI, recommending him when an opening became available for a batsman in 1961, and was influential in Luckhurst's recall to the side in 1962 and in his promotion to opening batsman the following season.
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The side had won the 1970 County Championship, their first Championships since the period before the First World War, and when Colin Page succeeded Les Ames as Kent's manager in 1975 the side were joint winners of the Championship in 1977 and won the competition outright the following season.
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In 1981 Colin Page became Kent's Director of Youth Cricket, a role he held until shortly before his death.
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Colin Page lived at Offham and was Chairman of Offham Cricket Club between 1968 and 1971.
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Colin Page died in a car crash at Tunbridge Wells in 1990 whilst driving home from a coaching session at Sevenoaks.