Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Wallace Sproule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 17 April 1891 Killyleagh, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 10 May 1957 Belfast, Northern Ireland | (aged 66)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1923 | Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source:
Cricinfo, 3 November 2018 |
Wallace Sproule (17 April 1891 – 10 May 1957) was an Irish first-class cricketer.
Sproule was born at Killyleagh in County Down, and was educated at The Royal School, Armagh. [1] After completing his secondary education Sproule went up to Trinity College, Dublin in 1909. [1] He played his club cricket for Dublin University, who regularly played host to English county opposition. [1]
He served in the British Army with the infantry during World War I, where he held the rank of Second Lieutenant in August 1915. [2] Emerging unscathed from the war, Sproule made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Ireland against Scotland at Dublin in 1923. [3]
In Scotland's first-innings, he took 4 wickets with his fast-medium bowling, to finish with innings figures of 4/64; he followed this up with figures of 2/19 in Scotland's second-innings. [4] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed by John Christie in Ireland's first-innings for a single run, while in their second-innings he was dismissed without scoring by Gilbert Hole. [4] He later played club cricket for Downpatrick, Dungannon, North of Ireland, and Bangor. [1] He died at Belfast in May 1957, [1] predeceasing his wife, Elizabeth, by twenty years. [5]