John Shaw Waring (1 October 1942 – 1 October 2023) was an English professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1963 to 1966.
Born in Ripon on 1 October 1942,[1] John Waring was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who played in 28 first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1963 to 1966,[2] and one match for Warwickshire in 1967.
[5] Waring sometimes opened the Yorkshire bowling in combination with Fred Trueman.
Journalist Chris Waters wrote a biography of Trueman and, as part of his research, calculated that Trueman had opened Yorkshire's bowling in 802 innings with 28 "new ball partners".
Waring is fourteenth in this list with eight innings; the leaders are Tony Nicholson (188), Mel Ryan (126) and Bob Appleyard (101).