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Eric Martin (Middlesex Cricketer)
Eric Martin (20 May 1894 – 2 May 1924) was an English first-class cricketer active 1919–23 who played for Middlesex. He was born in Barnet and educated at Christ's College, Finchley. He played intermittently for Middlesex between 1919 and 1923 as a lower middle-order batsman without making any real impact. His best score was 64 against Essex at Leyton in 1919, when he helped add 152 for the ninth wicket in an hour and a quarter. He was captain of Finchley CC and a prominent member of the Casuals FC. He was killed in an airplane collision at Duxford Aerodrome Duxford Aerodrome is located south of Cambridge, within the civil parish of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England and nearly west of the village. The airfield is owned by the Imperial War Museum (IWM) and is the site of the Imperial War Mus ....Daily Mirror 3 May 1924 References 1894 births 1924 deaths English cricketers Middlesex cricketers Demobilised Officers cricketers Victims of aviation accident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-class Cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none at all. The etymology of "first-class cricket" is unknown, but it was used loosely before it acquired official status in 1895, following a meeting of leading English clubs. At a meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1947, it was formally defined on a global basis. A significant omission of the ICC ruling was any attempt to define first-class cricket retrospectively. That has left historians, and especially statisticians, with the problem of how to categorise earlier matches, especially those played in Great Britain be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |