Samuel Ward Shippey (born 13 June 1937) is a former English cricketer. Shippey was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break. He was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

Shippey made his debut for Cambridgeshire in the 1958 Minor Counties Championship against Bedfordshire. From 1958 to 1963, he represented the county in 13 Minor Counties matches. Fifteen years after last representing Cambridgeshire in the championship, he played his fifteenth and final Minor Counties Championship match against Lincolnshire in 1978.

Samuel Shippey

Shippey also represented Cambridgeshire in 2 List-A matches against Essex in the 1964 Gillette Cup and against Yorkshire in the 1967 Gillette Cup. In his 2 List-A matches, he scored just 2 runs.

Samuel Shippey

Family

His brother Tony represented the Marylebone Cricket Club, a combined Minor Counties cricket team in first-class cricket and Minor Counties North and Cambridgeshire in List-A cricket.

Samuel Shippey

References

External links

Samuel Shippey at Cricinfo

Samuel Shippey at CricketArchive

1937 births

Living people

Sportspeople from Wisbech

English cricketers

Cambridgeshire cricketers

Cricketers from Cambridgeshire