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Alexander Colin David Ingleby-Mackenzie OBE (15 September 1933 – 9 March 2006) was an English first-class cricketer: a left-handed batsman who played for Hampshire between 1951 and 1966, captaining the county from 1958 to 1965 as Hampshire's last amateur captain and leading his side to their first County Championship in the 1961 season. He was later president of the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1996 to 1998, during which time women were first permitted to join.

Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie

OBE
Personal information
Full name
Alexander Colin David Ingleby-Mackenzie
Born(1933-09-15)15 September 1933
Dartmouth, Devon, England
Died9 March 2006(2006-03-09) (aged 72)
London, England
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm off break
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1951–1966Hampshire
1956–1962Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 343 9
Runs scored 12421 190
Batting average 24.35 27.14
100s/50s 11/55 –/1
Top score 132* 59*
Balls bowled 50 0
Wickets 0 –
Bowling average – –
5 wickets in innings – –
10 wickets in match – –
Best bowling – –
Catches/stumpings 205/1 7/2
Source: Cricinfo, 25 August 2009

Early life

Ingleby-Mackenzie was the only son of Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Ingleby-Mackenzie and Violetta Longstaffe, Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie was born in Dartmouth on 15 September 1933.[1][2] He was educated firstly at Ludgrove School, before attending Eton College.[1] There he became keeper of fives, squash, rackets, and the Field Game. He also played in the Wall Game, football, tennis, and cricket, playing three times in the annual Eton v Harrow cricket match.[3] It was at the age of 12, whilst batting in the nets, that he was first spotted by Harry Altham.[4] As a 16-year-old playing for Hampshire's Second XI, he did enough to convince Hampshire captain and secretary Desmond Eagar that he was future captaincy material himself.[5]

A year later, in September 1951, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire, against Sussex at Bournemouth in the County Championship,[6] but was dismissed without scoring by Alan Oakman in his debut innings.[7] The following season, he made six first-class appearances for Hampshire, playing five County Championship matches, and once against the touring Indians.[6] After completing his education at Eton, Ingleby-Mackenzie gained a place at Trinity College, Oxford, but chose not to take it.[5] Instead, he undertook National Service in 1952 and 1953 in the Royal Navy as a midshipman,[1] which entitled him to play for the Combined Services cricket team in two first-class matches against Warwickshire and the touring Australians,[6] scoring 66 runs in the Combined Services second innings in the latter fixture.[8] Due to his National Service commitments, he did not play for Hampshire in 1953.

Career with Hampshire

Early years

After completing his National Service, Ingleby-Mackenzie gained employment with Slazenger in Yorkshire,[5][9] who gave him copious leave to pursue a parallel cricket career with Hampshire. He established himself in the Hampshire side as a middle order batsman in the 1954 season, making 29 first-class appearances,[6] scoring 821 runs at an average of 17.84. He made four half centuries during his first full season, top-scoring with 85 runs.[10] In 1955, he played only two first-class matches, playing one match apiece for Hampshire against Warwickshire, and for the Free Foresters against Oxford University.[6] Following the 1955 season, he was selected to tour the West Indies with E. W. Swanton's personal team.[11] The tour took place in March and April 1956, with Ingleby-Mackenzie playing two first-class matches against Trinidad and a West Indies XI.[6]

He featured more regularly for Hampshire in 1956, making eleven appearances, alongside playing twice for the Free Foresters and once for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Hampshire.[6][12] It was during this season that he began to score runs and impress the more senior players at Hampshire. He made a maiden first-class century with an unbeaten 124 runs against Oxford University,[13] in what was his first match of the season for Hampshire. He followed this up with an unbeaten 130 runs against Worcestershire at Cowes.[4] He ended the season with 696 runs at an average of 34.80.[10] Following the season, he toured Jamaica with a team led by the Duke of Norfolk.[14] There, he played two first-class matches against Jamaica.[6] During the 1957 season, he fully established himself in the Hampshire side, making 29 first-class appearances.[6] In these, he scored a thousand runs in a season for the first time, with 1,230 at an average of 27.33.[10] When Eagar had need to stand aside from the captaincy for certain matches in 1956 and 1957, he let Ingleby-Mackenzie deputise.[4] He gained his cap in 1957, following 88 against Kent.[15]

Hampshire captaincy

Eagar retired after the 1957 season, with him subsequently appointing Ingleby-Mackenzie to replace him.[16] In his first season as captain, he led Hampshire to second-place in the County Championship, their highest ever finish.[4] During the season he scored 1,188 runs at an average of 25.82, making two centuries.[10] In the same year, he was named as the Cricket Writer's Club Young Cricketer of the Year.[17] 1958 also coincided with a change of career for Ingleby-Mackenzie, with him being co-opted by the Kent cricketer Bryan Valentine into the insurance brokers Holmwoods, Back and Manson.[15]

Nevertheless, he was often absent pursuing his sport in a swashbuckling fashion. Hampshire's victory in the 1961 County Championship was, in part, due to Ingleby-Mackenzie's bold captaincy: 10 of their 19 victories that season are attributable to bold declarations on the third (and last) day, in a summer when the opposing team could not be made to follow-on. The team included West Indian opening batsman Roy Marshall, veteran swing and seam bowler Derek Shackleton, and fast bowler David White.

In his first-class career, he scored 12,421 first-class runs, including 11 hundreds, at a relatively low average of 24.35, this figure depressed at least in part because of his attacking instincts: in only one season (1956) when he played more than a handful of games did he average above 30. However, he passed 1,000 runs in a season five times.

He was an occasional right-arm off-break bowler (he never took a wicket) and an equally occasional wicket-keeper, who gained his only first-class stumping (that of Gerry Alexander) for the Duke of Norfolk's XI against Jamaica in the 1956–1957 West Indian cricket season, deputising for Leo Harrison.

He wrote his autobiography, Many a Slip, in 1962. John Arlott said the book "reflects a considerable capacity for the enjoyment of most pleasures ... [and] presents a picture of a young man engagingly carefree in a way that seems to belong to a different age from ours".[18]

After cricket

He retired from first-class cricket in 1965, and later became chairman of Holmwoods. He led the firm through a 33 million pound management buyout from Brown Shipley in 1992 and oversaw the sale of the business to HSBC in 1997, becoming deputy chairman of HSBC Insurance Services.

He became cricket manager for Sir Paul Getty at his ground at Wormsley. He was reputedly one of the last to see Lord Lucan. He was a member of the Clermont Club and White's Club. He was also a life member of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and he captained Sunningdale Golf Club in 2000.

Ingleby-Mackenzie served as president of Marylebone Cricket Club from 1996 to 1998. He was in the post when the new media centre at Lord's was approved and building work began. He led a campaign in favour of women's membership, ultimately convincing members to vote in favour of the change in September 1998, after forcing two votes on the matter within seven months.[19] He pronounced himself "absolutely delighted" at the decision.[20] and he is famously quoted as saying "Women are a very fine species."[21] He became president of Hampshire in 2002.

Personal life

He married Susan Marion Clifford-Turner in 1975; they had a daughter.[22][23] He was awarded the OBE in the summer of 2005, just a few months before his death at the age of 72, following surgery for a brain tumour. The hearse carrying his coffin passed beneath and adjacent to the stands as it circled Lord's Cricket Ground before making its way to Kensal Rise Crematorium. A memorial service was held on 29 June 2006 at St Paul's Cathedral which was attended by more than 1,600 people.[24] His wife died on 12 November 2023, aged 83.[25]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie". The Times. No. 68647. London. 14 March 2006. p. 63. Retrieved 26 December 2024 – via Gale.
  2. ^ Obituary: Sir ALEXANDER INGLEBY-MACKENZIE K.B.E., C.B., B.M., B.Ch in British Medical Journal, vol. 1, issue 5221, Jan. 28, 1961, pp. 296-297
  3. ^ Stringer, Gordon. "Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie OBE (1933-2006)". www.etonfives.com. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d "Wisden – Obituaries Index: F–J". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  5. ^ a b c Foot, David (16 March 2006). "Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i "First-Class Matches played by Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Hampshire v Sussex, County Championship 1951". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  8. ^ "Combined Services v Australians, Australia in British Isles 1953". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  9. ^ Williams 2012, p. 68.
  10. ^ a b c d "First-Class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  11. ^ "Swanton's Team for West Indies Tyson and Cowdrey Chosen". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. 30 November 1955. p. 11. Retrieved 26 December 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. ^ "M.C.C. Side to Play Hampshire". Portsmouth Evening News. 4 May 1956. p. 28. Retrieved 26 December 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  13. ^ "Oxford University v Hampshire, University Match 1956". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  14. ^ "Seven Test Men to Tour Jamaica". Edinburgh Evening News. 12 November 1956. p. 10. Retrieved 27 December 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  15. ^ a b "Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie". The Daily Telegraph. London. 15 March 2006. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
  16. ^ "County Captain: Mr. Eagar's View". Portsmouth Evening News. 18 October 1957. p. 20. Retrieved 27 December 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  17. ^ "Young Cricketer of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 August 2008.
  18. ^ John Arlott, "Cricket Books, 1962", Wisden 1963, pp. 1110–11.
  19. ^ Guardian Staff (17 March 1999). "MCC women join the men after 200 years". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  20. ^ "MCC's vote hails end of elitism" (29 September 1998)
  21. ^ "MCC votes to allow women members"
  22. ^ Foot, David (16 March 2006). "Obituary: Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie". The Guardian.
  23. ^ "Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie". Independent.co.uk. 16 March 2006.
  24. ^ Martin-Jenkins, Christopher. "Memorial service: Colin Ingleby Mackenzie". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  25. ^ "Announcements: Deaths". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
Sporting positions
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