Les Ames

England
Les Ames
INTL CAREER: 1929 - 1939
The Kent squad for a County Championship game against Surrey, The Oval. Standing (left to right): L Kilby (masseur), Bob Woolmer, John Shepherd, Alan Brown, Norm Graham, John Dye, Graham Johnson, Asif Iqbal, Colin Page and C Lewis (scorer). Seated: David Nicholls, Alan Knott, Derek Underwood, Mike Denness, Colin Cowdrey, Les Ames (secretary), Stuart Leary, Brian Luckhurst and Alan Ealham, September 10, 1970

The Kent squad for a County Championship game against Surrey, The Oval

The MCC team which toured South Africa unbeaten in 1938-39: Back row - Bill  Edrich, Doug Wright, Eddie Paynter, WH Ferguson (scorer); middle row - 	Len  Wilkinson, Hedley Verity, Hugh Bartlett, Tom Goddard, Reggie Perks, Len Hutton, Paul Gibb; front - CR Ridgway (SA manager), Ken Farnes, NormanYardley, Wally Hammond (captain), Les Ames, Bryan Valentine, AJ Holmes (manager)
The MCC team which toured South Africa unbeaten in 1938-39Wisden Cricket Monthly
Three weeks after scoring 202 not out in Kent's 803 for 4 against Essex, Les Ames finds himself acknowledging the applause at Lord's for his century against Australia in 1934, the first by a regular wicketkeeper in an Ashes Test
Les Ames reaches his hundred at Lord's in 1934ESPNcricinfo Ltd
Les Ames is controversially run out for 4, Australia v England, 5th Test, Sydney, February 25, 1933
Les Ames is controversially run out for 4The Cricketer International
The MCC squad for the 1932-33 tour of Australia and New Zealand. Back: George Duckworth, Tommy Mitchell, The Nawab of Pataudi, Maurice Leyland, Harold Larwood, Eddie Paynter, Bill Ferguson (scorer). Middle: Plum Warner (manager), Les Ames , Hedley Verity, Bill Voce, Bill Bowes, Freddie Brown, Maurice Tate, Dick Palairet (assistant manager). Front: Herbert Sutcliffe, Bob Wyatt, Douglas  Jardine (captain), Gubby Allen, Wally Hammond.
The MCC squad for the 1932-33 tour of Australia and New ZealandKenneth Xavier/ESPNcricinfo Ltd
England players on board the <i>Orontes</i> travelling to Australia, September 28, 1932
England players on board the Orontes travelling to AustraliaGetty Images
Sussex on the way to victory over Kent at Maidstone in 1932.  James Langridge plays a ball from Tich Freeman, with Les Ames keeping and Frank Woolley at slip, Duleepsinjhi is the non striker
Sussex on the way to victory over Kent in 1932Wisden Cricket Monthly
Members of the England team pose for a photograph in a hotel pool (in a snapshot from the album of Kent and England wicketkeeper Les Ames). Andrew Sandham is second from left; Bob Wyatt foreground, centre; and Ames rear, third from right, circa January 1930
Members of the England team in a poolGetty Images
Don Bradman tries to drive Hedley Verity and holes out to Les Ames who holds a skyer, England v Australia, Lord's, June 25, 1934
Don Bradman tries to drive Hedley Verity and holes out to Les Ames who holds a skyerPA Photos
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Les Ames (Kent & England)
Les Ames (Kent & England)The Cricketer International
(Back row, left:) Harold Larwood, Les Ames, Maurice Leyland and George Duckworth. Front row (first from left) Eddie Paynter
England players on board the Orontes to Australia for the 1932-33 Ashes seriesGetty Images
The England XII for the Lord's Test of 1932 against India. Back: Eddie Paynter, Wally Hammond, Bill Voce, Bill Bowes, George Paine (12th man),  Les Ames, Percy Holmes: Front: Herbert Sutcliffe, Walter Robins,  Douglas Jardine (captain), Freddie Brown,  Frank Woolley, June 25, 1932
The England XII for the Lord's Test of 1932 against IndiaESPNcricinfo Ltd
The Hon Freddie Calthorpe leads England onto the field. L-r Les Ames, Patsy Hendren, Andy Sandham, Wilfred Rhodes, Bob Wyatt, Calthorpe, Jack O'Connor, Ewart Astill, Nigel Haig, George Gunn, Bill Voce, West Indies v England, Barbados, January 11, 1930
The Hon Freddie Calthorpe leads England onto the fieldESPNcricinfo Ltd
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