Wilfred Frederick Frank Price (25 April 1902 in Westminster

Metropolitan Borough of Westminster

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, London

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, England

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 – 13 January 1969 in Hendon

Hendon

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, Greater London

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, England) was a cricket

Cricket

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er who played for Middlesex County Cricket Club

Middlesex County Cricket Club

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 from 1926 to 1947. Price also stood as an umpire from 1950 to 1967. He played in one Test match

Test cricket

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 and officiated as an umpire in eight.

Price was a wicket-keeper

Wicket-keeper

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 who took 648 catches and 316 stumpings in his first-class

First-class cricket

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 career. He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1940.

Price was unfortunate to be around in the same era as Les Ames

Les Ames

Leslie Ethelbert George Ames, CBE was an outstanding wicket-keeper and batsman for the England cricket team and Kent County Cricket Club. In his obituary, the Wisden of 1991 described him as the greatest wicket-keeper-batsman of all time...

, which limited Price's opportunities for an international career. He toured abroad twice, once with the Honourable Freddie Calthorpe

Freddie Calthorpe

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's side in 1929/30, when he went as a replacement for Rony Stanyforth

Rony Stanyforth

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, and then on a non-Test tour to South America in 1937/8.

Price's reputation as an umpire was as someone who would stand up strongly for what he felt was right. He once no-balled Tony Lock

Tony Lock

Graham Anthony Richard Lock was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. He played in forty nine Tests for England taking 174 wickets at 25.58 each.-Life and career:...

, the Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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 and England

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 spin bowler for throwing against India

Indian cricket team

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. He also lay down at square-leg, refusing to get up, to stop barracking at a Surrey-Yorkshire game.