Henry Webster (cricketer)
Henry Haywood Webster (8 May 1844 – 5 March 1915) was an English first-class cricketer, who played in two matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1868, against Middlesex and Surrey. Born in Handsworth, part of Sheffield, Yorkshire, Webster was a right-handed batsman who scored 10 runs at an average of 3.33.Henry Webster

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. Retrieved 2018-12-30. His highest first-class score was 10 against Middlesex. Webster played non-first-class cricket for during the 1860s and for teams in Birmingham and for

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 ...
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