349:– were rated as first-class. Beisiegel played in five of these matches for the RAF team between 1928 and 1931 as a middle-order batsman. In his first match, against The Army cricket team in 1928, he scored 54 in his only innings of the match, and this was to be the highest score of his first-class career. A year later, in the same fixture, he top-scored for the RAF with 53. Though Beisiegel continued to play in these inter-services matches through to 1938, none of his games were first-class after 1931, and these were the only first-class scores he made of more than 50.
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report said that it was "the most sensational victory of the season": Yorkshire had declared their first innings 102 ahead with only five wickets down but, set 149 to win, were all out for 90. Two weeks later there was a second victory under
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Three years after his last first-class game for the Royal Air Force team, Beisiegel played 10 matches for
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324:in the annual review of schools cricket in
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651:. www.cricketarchive.com. 22 August 1934.
430:Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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610:. www.cricketarchive.com. 8 August 1934.
783:(Supplement). 2 June 1950. p. 2783.
562:. www.cricketarchive.com. 15 June 1929.
536:. www.cricketarchive.com. 13 June 1928.
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608:"Scorecard: Leicestershire v Yorkshire"
560:"Scorecard: The Army v Royal Air Force"
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461:"Player Profile: Walter Beisiegel"
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486:"Public School Cricket in 1925".
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368:superior to Leicestershire when
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866:Royal Air Force air commodores
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635:The Times
440:in 1956.
364:The Times
359:Yorkshire
302:Uppingham
237:stumpings
227:Top score
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