# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-yardley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:27:16.886Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-yardley"
name: "Norman Yardley"
slug: "norman-yardley"
description: "Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England, as a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler. An amateur, he captained Yorkshire from 1948 to 1955 and England on fourteen occasions between 1947 and 1950, winning four Tests, losing seven and drawing three. Yardley was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1948, and in his obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack he was described as Yorkshire's finest amateur since Stanley Jackson."
tagline: "Amateur cricketer (1915-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Norman_Yardley_1946-07-12.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1915-03-19"
deathDate: "1989-10-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             14.15931721194879
  historical:           4.881642666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump