Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia

David Stanley Steele. Northamptonshire & England 1963-1984. Duncan Fearnley cricket bat used by Steele in the 1975 cricket season playing for Northamptonshire and in his Test debut and subsequent Test matches against Australia. The bat is inscribed with printed detail in black ‘This bat was used with outstanding success by David Steele to combat Lillee and Thomson during the Test series England v Australia 1975’ and signed and dedicated to bat maker Duncan Fearnley ‘Best Wishes Duncan David Steele’. Sold with a letter of authentication signed by Fearnley ‘This bat was handmade for David Steele [and] was used by him for his England debut in 1975 and for the remainder of the season...’. The bat has splitting to the bat handle rubber and was previously used in a bat display which involved the attachment of the bat which has caused some loss of the surface of the back of the bat plus four small nail? holes. The bat was previously sold by John Goodwin Auctioneers in 2019 on behalf of Duncan Fearnley and formed part of his private bat collection. An historic bat. Sold with a copy of Steele’s autobiography ‘Come in Number 3’. London 1977