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Aspinall (1840s Cricketer)
This is a complete list in alphabetical order of cricketers who played first-class cricket matches for Manchester Cricket Club. Manchester played a total of 13 matches between 1844 and 1858 which have been retrospectively classified as first-class. The club is first recorded in matches from 1822. The club is a fore-runner of Lancashire County Cricket Club which was formed in 1865. A team with the Lancashire name played four first-class matches, all against Yorkshire sides, between 1849 and 1851. Players who played in these matches only are not included in the list below. Many players represented other teams besides Manchester. CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-05. A B C D E G ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismiss each batter (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side either catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground, or hitting a wicket with the ball before a batter can cross the crease in front of the wicket. When ten batters have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Braybrooke
Stephen Henry Braybrooke (24 December 1808 – 1886) was an English first-class cricketer. Born at Thanet in December 1808, Braybrooke was by profession a mill owner at Oldham, specialising in the spinning and manufacture of cotton. He played first-class cricket on two occasions for Manchester, with both matches coming against Yorkshire in 1844 and 1845 at Moss Lane Moss Lane (currently known as the J. Davidson Stadium for sponsorship purposes) is a multi-purpose stadium in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. It is currently used primarily for football matches and is the home ground of Altrincham. The .... Braybrooke died at Salford in 1886. References External links * 1808 births 1886 deaths People from Thanet (district) English cricketers Manchester Cricket Club cricketers English industrialists 19th-century English businesspeople Cricketers from Kent {{England-cricket-bio-1800s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Hunt (cricketer)
Thomas Hunt (2 September 1819 – 11 September 1858) was an English first-class cricketer. Hunt was born at Chesterfield in September 1819. He made his debut in first-class cricket for Yorkshire against Manchester at Manchester in 1845. Hunt played first-class cricket on 39 occasions from 1845–58. In addition to playing for Yorkshire, Hunt also appeared for an All England Eleven, England, Lancashire, Manchester, the North, the Players, Sheffield and a United All-England Eleven. In his 39 matches he scored 922 runs at an average of 15.11, with a high score of 102. This score, which was the only time he passed fifty in first-class cricket, came for the North in the North v South fixture of 1856 at Broughton. As a right-arm roundarm fast bowler, he took 67 wickets at a bowling average of 14.94, taking five wickets in an innings on five occasions and ten wickets in a match once. Playing as a wicket-keeper, Hunt made nine stumpings. He died at Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Heighes
Thomas Heighes (2 June 1825 – 29 December 1882) was an English first-class cricketer, active 1851–57, who played for Manchester Cricket Club and Lancashire. He was born in Selborne, Hampshire and died in Belfast, Ireland External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Heighes, Thomas 1825 births 1882 deaths English cricketers People from Selborne Manchester Cricket Club cricketers Cricketers from Hampshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Girling
Arthur Girling (1807 – June 1849) was an English people, English first-class cricketer and umpire (cricket), umpire. Girling was born at Burton upon Trent in 1807. He made his debut in first-class cricket for the North of England cricket team, North against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's in 1841, with Girling also featuring in the return fixture at Burton-on-Trent Cricket Ground, Burton-on-Trent. He next played first-class cricket in 1845, when he appeared for Manchester Cricket Club, Manchester against Yorkshire county cricket teams, Yorkshire at Moss Lane Cricket Ground, Manchester. He played first-class cricket for Manchester until 1848, making six appearances. Playing as a bowler for Manchester, he took a total of 34 wickets at an bowling average, average of 11.05, with best figures of 6 for 32. These figures came against Sheffield Cricket Club, Sheffield in 1848, a match in which he took two five-wicket hauls. He also stood as an umpire (cricket), umpire in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Elmhirst
Lieutenant-General Charles Elmhirst (25 October 1815 – 14 December 1893) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Life and military career Elmhirst was born in October 1815 at Holton cum Beckering, Lincolnshire. He purchased a commission into the 9th Regiment of Foot as an ensign in August 1835, and was promoted to lieutenant, again by purchase, in October 1837. Elmhirst served in the First Anglo-Afghan War, and was mentioned in despatches for recapturing a British gun during the expedition to Kohistan. He purchased promotion to captain in January 1846. An amateur cricketer, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Manchester against Sheffield at Hyde Park in 1848. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed without scoring by Richard Skelton in Manchester's first-innings, while in their second-innings he made 45 runs before being dismissed by James Burbeary, sharing in a partnership of 109 with Edward Martin. He purchased the rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Earl (cricketer, Born 1822)
John Henry Earl (30 November 1822 – 5 February 1874) was an English first-class cricketer active 1849–52 who played for Manchester Cricket Club and Lancashire XIs. The son of John Earl senior, he was born in Manchester and died in Cheetham Hill Cheetham is an inner-city area and electoral ward of Manchester, England, which in 2011 had a population of 22,562. It lies on the west bank of the River Irk, north of Manchester city centre, close to the boundary with Salford, bounded by Brou ..., Lancashire. Earl made two appearances, his 1849 debut being against a Yorkshire XI at the Hyde Park Ground in Sheffield. His second match was in 1852 for Manchester against Sheffield at the Botanical Gardens Cricket Ground in Manchester. In his two matches he scored a total of 43 runs, with a highest score of 18, and he took two wickets. References External links * 1822 births 1874 deaths English cricketers Manchester Cricket Club cricketers Cricketers from Manches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Earl (cricketer, Born 1788)
John Earl (31 July 1788 – 20 April 1866) was an English first-class cricketer active 1844–45 who played for Manchester Cricket Club as a left-handed batsman. Earl played twice for Manchester, scoring 16 runs with a highest score of 8. He was born in Quorndon Quorn () is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, near the university town of Loughborough. Its name was shortened from Quorndon in 1889, to avoid postal difficulties owing to its similarity to the name of another village, Qua ...; died in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. His son was John Henry Earl who also played for Manchester. References 1788 births 1866 deaths English cricketers Manchester Cricket Club cricketers People from Quorn, Leicestershire Cricketers from Leicestershire {{England-cricket-bio-1780s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Diver
Alfred John Day Diver (6 July 1823 – 25 March 1876) was an English first-class cricketer whose career spanned the 1843 season to the 1866 season. Diver played mainly for Cambridge Town Club (''aka'' Cambridgeshire) and also played for Middlesex and Nottinghamshire. Popularly known as "Ducky", Diver is best known as a reliable batsman for various All-England Eleven teams. Following the 1859 English cricket season, he was one of the 12-strong party of English players who toured North America. Led by George Parr, this was the first ever overseas cricket tour. His nephew, Edwin Diver, played over 200 first-class games, mostly for Surrey and Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon an .... External sources * * Statistical summaryfrom CricketArchive Further ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Davis (cricketer)
Thomas Davis (27 November 1827 – 29 May 1898) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1854 and 1865.Thomas Davis . Retrieved 2020-06-27. Davis was born at Nottingham in 1827. He lived at Sneinton and worked as a printer and metal worker. From about 1850 he was employed as a professional cricketer in a number of posts, including in Dublin from 1865 to 1869. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Dakin
Samuel Dakin (12 April 1808 – 27 December 1876) was an English first-class cricketer active 1840–55 who played mostly for Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC or The North. He was born in Sileby; died in Cambridge. Dakin was a right-handed batting (cricket), batsman, a medium pace roundarm bowling, roundarm bowler and an occasional wicketkeeper who played in 45 matches. He scored 834 career run (cricket), runs with a highest score of 64; held 22 caught, catches; completed one stumped, stumping; and took 35 wickets with a best return of four for 3. References 1808 births 1876 deaths English cricketers Cambridge Town Club cricketers Manchester Cricket Club cricketers Married v Single cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club and Metropolitan Clubs cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Midland Counties cricketers Non-international England cricketers North v South cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers Players cricketers United All-England Eleven cricketers People from Sileby Cric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cooke (cricketer)
George Frederick Cooke (1 August 1826 – 25 March 1862) was an English first-class cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...er. Cooke was born at Manchester in August 1826 and was educated at Rugby School. He made his debut in first-class cricket for Manchester against Sheffield at Manchester in 1848. Cooke played first-class cricket on eighteen occasions from 1848–58. In addition to playing for Manchester, Cooke also appeared for Lancashire and the Marylebone Cricket Club, as well as representing four 'gentlemen' teams: the Gentlemen of England, the Gentlemen of the South, the Gentlemen of the North, and the Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club. In his eighteen matches he scored 356 runs at an average of 10.47, with a high score of 40. With t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
