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English Cricket Team In South Africa In 1895–96
An English cricket team, organised and led by Lord Hawke, toured South Africa from December 1895 to March 1896. The team played three matches against the South Africa national cricket team which were retrospectively awarded Test status. There is uncertainty about the status of South African cricket as a whole in the late nineteenth century and so only two of Hawke's matches against provincial teams, those involving Transvaal and Western Province, are rated first-class. Hawke's XI is designated England for the Test series which they won 3–0, winning all three matches by substantial margins. Tim O'Brien captained England in the first Test, although Hawke was playing, and Hawke was captain in the second and third Tests. The South African teams were captained by Ernest Halliwell (first two Tests) and Alfred Richards (third Test). Hawke's team was not a full-strength England team, but it did include four of the best players of the time in Tom Hayward, C. B. Fry, George Lohmann an ... [...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] |
Bonnor Middleton
James "Bonnor" Middleton (30 September 1865 – 23 December 1913) was a South African cricketer who played in six Test cricket, Tests from 1896 to 1902. On his debut, he took five wickets in the first innings against England in Port Elizabeth in 1896. Middleton served in the British Army until Cape Town Cricket Club bought his release so he could become their professional. A left-arm slow-medium opening bowler, Middleton played for Western Province cricket team, Western Province from 1890–91 to 1903–04. His best first-class figures were 7 for 64 in the Currie Cup (cricket), Currie Cup final against Transvaal cricket team, Transvaal in 1897–98. He took 12 for 100 in the match, which Western Province won. Middleton was one of the leading players on South African cricket team in England in 1894, South Africa's tour of England in 1894 when no Tests were played; in the South Africans' narrow victory over Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC at Lord's he bowled unchanged through both i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Butt
Henry Rigden Butt (27 December 1865 – 21 December 1928) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1890 and 1912. Butt also played three Test matches for England on their tour to South Africa in 1895–96. He later went on to become an umpire, and stood in that role in six Tests. His popularity was such that when he retired as an umpire due to ill-health, the County captains wrote to the Secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club asking him to write to Butt to express their regret at the cause. Butt, a short man, was Sussex's wicket-keeper for twenty years. He was awarded two benefits: the matches between Sussex and Yorkshire at Hove in 1900, and between Sussex and Middlesex at Lord's in 1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audley Miller
Audley Montague Miller (19 October 1869 – 26 June 1959) was an amateur cricketer who played one Test match for England in 1896, and stood as an umpire in two Tests, also in 1896. Life and career Miller was born in Gloucestershire and educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He married Georgiana Porter in Fairford, Gloucestershire, in August 1897. Miller's participation in his only Test came on England's tour of South Africa in 1895-96. The early England touring parties to South Africa comprised mostly good minor county or club cricketers, with a small number of first-class cricketers thrown in. The games against South Africa were only given Test status retrospectively. Miller was one of the minor players on the tour, and he made his first-class and Test debut in the 1st Test at Port Elizabeth in February 1896, scoring 4 not out and 20 not out. Due to the bowling of George Lohmann (7-38 and 8-7, including a hat-trick), England won easily, by 288 runs. On the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wright (cricketer)
Charles William Wright (27 May 1863 – 10 January 1936) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University between 1882 and 1885 and for Nottinghamshire between 1882 and 1899. Wright also played many first-class cricket games for the Marylebone Cricket Club. His Test match career was limited to three appearances for England against South Africa in 1895-96. Wright was an opening batsman and wicket-keeper. Wright was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. In total Wright went on four overseas tours, all of which were captained by Lord Hawke. These were to the United States and Canada in 1891 and 1894, to India in 1892-93, and then on the South African tour in which Wright played his Tests. He is also notable for two other occurrences: *In 1890 he was the first captain to declare an innings closed. In a game against Kent at the Bat and Ball Ground in Gravesend, Wright declared Nottinghamshire's second innings closed on 157 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Bromley-Davenport
Hugh Richard Bromley-Davenport (18 August 1870 – 23 May 1954) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University between 1892 and 1893 and Middlesex between 1896 and 1898. He played four Test matches for England, all in South Africa. Life and career Bromley-Davenport was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He took part in four overseas tours in the 1890s: to the West Indies with R. S. Lucas' XI in 1894–95 and Lord Hawke's XI in 1896–97, and to South Africa with the English Test team in 1895–96, when he played three Tests, and 1898–99, when he played one Test. He was the most successful bowler on the tour of the West Indies in 1894–95, taking 56 wickets at 10.01, including his best first-class figures of 6 for 22 and 7 for 17 in the victory over Demerara. In the second innings he took the first first-class hat-trick in the West Indies. His best figures in England were 7 for 91 for A. J. Webbe's XI against Cambridge Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ledger Hill
Arthur James Ledger Hill (26 July 1871 – 6 September 1950) was an English cricketer. Ledger Hill was educated at Marlborough College and Jesus College, Cambridge. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge University between 1890 and 1893, and for Hampshire between 1895 and 1921. He also played three Test matches for England on their tour to South Africa in 1895-96. Hill scored the first-ever first-class century to be scored in India. His nephew, Richard Page Richard Lewis Page (born 22 February 1941) is a former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and from December 1979 to 2005. Early life Born the son of Victor Charles Page, he went to the independent H ... was also a first-class cricketer. References * 1871 births 1950 deaths People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Cambridge University cricketers England Test cricketers English cricketers Hampshire cricketers I Zingari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Willoughby
Joseph Thomas Willoughby (7 November 1874 – 11 March 1952) was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1896. In the first match of the English tour of South Africa in 1895–96, Willoughby took 6 for 15 in the second innings to dismiss Lord Hawke's XI for 92 and give the Western Province XV victory by 74 runs. He later played in the first and third of the three Tests in the series, taking six wickets. In the first Test he dismissed George Lohmann for a pair Pair or PAIR or Pairing may refer to: Government and politics * Pair (parliamentary convention), matching of members unable to attend, so as not to change the voting margin * ''Pair'', a member of the Prussian House of Lords * ''Pair'', the Frenc ..., and Lohmann did the same to him. References External links * 1874 births 1952 deaths Cricketers from Aldershot South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers Western Province cricketers White South African people {{SouthAfrica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Cook (cricketer)
Frederick James Cook (31 January 1870 – 30 November 1915) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test match in 1896. Cook was a right-handed batsman who played for Eastern Province from the 1893–94 season to 1904–05. He made his highest score in his first-ever first-class cricket innings, when he captained Eastern Province and scored 59 and 28. In 1895–96, he played in the first Test match between South Africa and the MCC side captained by Lord Hawke. Batting at number nine, he made 7 out of a total of 93 in the first innings and failed to score in the second innings, when South Africa were bowled out for 30, with George Lohmann taking eight wickets for seven runs. In this second innings, Cook was the first dismissal in a Lohmann hat-trick which finished the match. At the outbreak of World War I he was commissioned in the Border Regiment and quickly promoted to captain. He went to Gallipoli, where he was attached to the 1/4th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gleeson
Robert Anthony Gleeson (10 December 1872 – 27 September 1919) was a South African cricketer who played one Test match in 1896. A useful batsman and a medium-pace bowler, Robert Gleeson's first-class career spanned the years 1894 to 1904, interrupted by a break of six years between 1897 and 1903. Playing for Eastern Province, he was more effective in the first half of his career, hitting up scores of, amongst others, 67 against Transvaal at Cape Town in March 1894 and 71 against Natal at Johannesburg in March 1897. He also recorded his best bowling figures during this period, 4 for 9 against Griqualand West at Cape Town in March 1894. When Lord Hawke brought an England side to South Africa in 1895–96, Gleeson was selected for the First Test Test(s), testing, or TEST may refer to: * Test (assessment), an educational assessment intended to measure the respondents' knowledge or other abilities Arts and entertainment * ''Test'' (2013 film), an American film * ''Tes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hime
Charles Frederick William Hime (24 October 1869 – 6 December 1940) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1896. Biography Hime was the son of Albert Henry Hime of the Royal Engineers, who was building an important causeway in Bermuda at the time of Charles's birth. After the completion of the causeway, Albert Hime and his family moved to the Colony of Natal, where he served as Premier of Natal from 1899 to 1903. Charles Hime scored 58 (his highest first-class score and the highest score in the match) and 29 when Natal defeated Transvaal by seven runs in the Currie Cup in 1893–94. He did reasonably well with bat and ball in the matches Pietermaritzburg and Natal played against the touring Lord Hawke's XI in January 1896, but was less successful when selected in the South African team for the First Test shortly afterwards – although his eight runs made him the second-highest scorer in South Africa's second innings of 30. He captained Natal in his final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Sinclair
James Hugh Sinclair (16 October 1876 – 23 February 1913) was a South African cricketer who played in 25 Test cricket, Test matches from 1896 to 1911. He scored South Africa cricket team, South Africa's first three Test Century (cricket), centuries and was the first person from any country to score a century and take five wickets in an innings in the same Test. He is one of the fastest-scoring Test batsmen of all time. Cricket career 1890s Jimmy Sinclair stood six feet four inches tallBenny Green (saxophonist), Benny Green ed. (1979) ''Wisden Anthology 1864–1900'', Queen Anne Press, London. p. 870. . and was a "prodigious right-handed hitter and an excellent fast bowler, combining a nice variety of pace with a high delivery". He made his first-class cricket, first-class debut for Gauteng cricket team, Transvaal in the 1892–93 Currie Cup (cricket), Currie Cup a few weeks after turning 16, opening both bowling and batting, taking eight wickets and scoring 37 and 11. He took 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
