Autographs of Godfrey Evans
Thomas Godfrey Evans CBE (18 August 1920 – 3 May 1999) was an English cricketer who played for Kent and England. Described by Wisden as 'arguably the best wicket-keeper the game has ever seen', Evans collected 219 dismissals in 91 Test match appearances between 1946 and 1959 and a total of 1066 in all first-class matches. En route he was the first wicket keeper to reach 200 Test dismissals and the first Englishman to reach both 1000 runs and 100 dismissals and 2000 runs and 200 dismissals in Test cricket. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1951.
As a teenager Godfrey Evans was a good all-round sportsman, gaining his colours and captaining the cricket, football and hockey teams at Kent College, Canterbury. He was also a very good boxer, winning all his amateur and professional fights, but at the age of 17 was forced by the Kent committee to choose between cricket and boxing. He worked on the ground staff at Dover in 1937, operating the scoreboard on the occasion that Kent made 219 runs in 71 minutes to beat Gloucestershire.
He made his Kent debut on 22 July 1939 against Surrey at Blackheath. He made 8 in the first innings as the match ended in a draw. World War II, during which he was in the Royal Army Service Corps, interrupted his career but a strong first season back in 1946 earned him a Test call-up.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Godfrey Evans (Godfrey Evans Signed First Day Cover 1984 Tuvalu – Cricket Legend – Rare) was sold in June 2025 for £97.02 while the cheapest item (Godfrey Evans England Cricket Signed Picture 9x7) found a new owner for £0.99 in April 2023. The month with the most items sold (11) was February 2013 with an average selling price of £3.19 for an autographed item of Godfrey Evans. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2024 with £50.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was June 2013. In average, an autographed item from Godfrey Evans is worth £4.99.
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