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| Full name | Michael Rodney Ricketts | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 September 1923 Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 November 2004 (aged 81) Truro, Cornwall, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1947–1954 | Suffolk | ||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 21 February 2019 | |||||||||||||||
Michael Rodney Ricketts (29 September 1923 – 21 November 2004) was an English first-class cricketer, British Army officer and educator. Ricketts served during the Second World War with the King's Royal Rifle Corps, attending the University of Oxford after the conclusion of the war. During this time he played first-class cricket for the Free Foresters, before embarking on a teaching career that saw him become the headmaster of the independent Sutton Valence School in Kent.