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Cyril Hollinshead (26 May 1902 – 25 November 1995) was an English cricketer. Hollinshead was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born at Timberland, Lincolnshire.

In 1931, Hollinshead played a single Minor Counties Championship match for Lincolnshire against Bedfordshire. Fifteen years later, following the Second World War, he played a single first-class match for Gloucestershire against Cambridge University at the Wagon Works Ground in Gloucester. In his only first-class match he wasn't required to bat and bowled 5 wicketless overs. In 1947, he represented the Gloucestershire Second XI in a Minor Counties Championship match against the Surrey Second XI at The Oval.

Hollinshead died at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 25 November 1995.

References

1. Lincolnshire v Bedfordshire, 1931 Minor Counties Championship
2. First-Class Matches played by Cyril Hollinshead
3. Surrey Second XI v Gloucestershire Second XI, 1947 Minor Counties Championship

External links

• Cyril Hollinshead at Cricinfo
• Cyril Hollinshead at CricketArchive

• 1902 births
• 1995 deaths
• People from North Kesteven District
• English cricketers
• Lincolnshire cricketers
• Gloucestershire cricketers
• Cricketers from Lincolnshire
• 20th-century English sportsmen