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Geoffrey Tomkinson
Sir Geoffrey Stewart Tomkinson (7 November 1881 - ) was an English sportsman and industrialist. He played two first-class cricket matches for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Worcestershire, 23 years apart. Born at Franche Hall, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, Tomkinson attended Winchester College and played for the cricket XI.''Obituaries in 1963''. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1964. He then went to King's College, Cambridge, King's College at Cambridge University and competed at sport rowing, rowing, rugby union and football (soccer), football; he also played cricket for the college, but did not win a university University sporting blue, blue. After leaving university, he played one match for Worcestershire, against Cambridge University Cricket Club, Cambridge University, in 1903; he scored just 1. He worked as an engineer on the Great Western Railway of Brazil, then when World War I broke out he served in the Worcestershire Regiment, reaching the rank of Lieutenant colone ... [...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] |