title: Richard Earnshaw
text: # Richard Earnshaw
  
  Richard Oliver Earnshaw (8 January 1939 – 28 July 1963) was an English first-class cricketer.
  
  While undertaking his National Service in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Earnshaw played first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team, making his debut against the touring South Africans at Portsmouth in 1960. He made a second first-class appearance in 1961, against Northamptonshire at Northampton. He scored 11 runs across his two matches, as well as bowling 67 wicketless overs with his right-arm fast-medium bowling, conceding 211 runs.
  
  He died at Westminster in July 1963, aged just 24.
  
  