Ronald Ernest Bird[1] (4 April 1915 – 20 February 1985) was an English cricketer who played 195 first-class matches in the years after the Second World War.
[4] Although Bird was on the groundstaff at Warwickshire as early as 1934,[2] he never played for that county, and the intervention of the Second World War meant that he was 31 before he made his first-class debut.
Bird's contribution to a narrow Worcestershire win was minimal: he scored 0 and 3, did not bowl, and held a single catch to dismiss Lala Amarnath.
[6] Bird returned for a full season the following summer, and passed a thousand runs for the first of three times, hitting 1,016 at 26.73 with one hundred – an innings of 116 which "had much to do" with a good win over Yorkshire[3] — and five fifties.
In late May of that year, he made his debut for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's, captaining the side for the only time and opening the batting; he scored 68 and 40 in a losing cause against Hampshire.