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List Of Northamptonshire Cricket Captains
Captains of Northamptonshire County Cricket Club Northamptonshire County Cricket Club (Northants), based on an existing organisation that dated from 1820, was officially founded on 31 July 1878 in Kettering. Northants joined the County Championship in 1905, when the team was elevated to first-class cricket, first-class status, and is one of eighteen county teams in England that play first-class cricket. The player appointed club captain (cricket), captain leads the team in all fixtures except if unavailable. * Jim Kingston, J. P. KingstonNote that Kingston played for Northants in the Minor Counties Championship only and his sole first-class appearance was for Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Warwickshire. (1878–1887; 1890–1891) * C. R. Thursby (1888) * T. H. G. Welch (1889) * F. Tyler (1892) * E. Scriven (1893) * Arthur Henfrey (footballer), A. G. Henfrey (1894–1895) * Thomas Horton (cricketer), T. Horton (1896–1906) * Edmund Crosse (cricketer), E. M. Crosse (1907) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Northamptonshire. Its limited overs team is called the Northants Steelbacks – a reference to the Northamptonshire Regiment which was formed in 1881. The name was supposedly a tribute to the soldiers' apparent indifference to the harsh discipline imposed by their officers. Founded in 1878, Northamptonshire (Northants) held minor status at first but was a prominent member of the early Minor Counties Championship during the 1890s. In 1905, the club joined the County Championship and was elevated to first-class status, since when the team have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England. The club plays the majority of its games at the County Cricket Ground, Northampton, but has used outlier grounds at Kettering, Wellingborough and Peterborough (formerly part of Northamptonshire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Raven
Reginald Owen Raven (26 November 1884 4 April 1936) was an English cricketer who played for Northamptonshire from 1905 to 1921 and was club captain in the 1920 and 1921 seasons. He was born in Baldock, Hertfordshire, on 26 November 1884 and died in Eastbourne, Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ..., on 4 April 1936. He appeared in 31 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman and scored 766 runs with a highest score of 59. Notes 1884 births 1936 deaths English cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers Northamptonshire cricket captains People from Baldock Cricketers from Hertfordshire {{england-cricket-bio-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raman Subba Row
Raman Subba Row (born 29 January 1932) is a former cricketer who played for England, Cambridge University, Surrey and Northamptonshire. Life and career Born in Streatham, Surrey, England to an Indian father Panguluri Venkata Subba Rao, of Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh and English mother, Doris Mildred Pinner, Subba Row was educated at Whitgift School and Cambridge University. A left-handed opening batsman and occasional leg-spin and googly bowler, Subba Row was a member of the powerful Cambridge side of the early 1950s and played a few games for Surrey before joining Northamptonshire. Taking over as captain in 1958, he led the side for four seasons and achieved considerable success as a batsman, scoring the county's highest ever innings, 260 not out, in 1955 and then bettering it with 300 against Surrey, the County Champions, at the Oval in 1958, when he shared a record sixth wicket stand of 376 with Albert Lightfoot. Subba Row played in thirteen Test matches for England, opening ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Brookes
Dennis Brookes (29 October 1915 – 9 March 2006) was an English cricketer who played for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Northamptonshire between 1934 and 1959 (and as captain between 1954 and 1957). He also played in one Test cricket, Test match for English cricket team, England against West Indian cricket team, West Indies in 1948. Brookes was President of Northamptonshire from 1982 to 1984. A cultured and prolific opening batsman, Brookes was the first professional skipper at Northamptonshire, and became both county president and a Justice of the peace. Life and career Brookes was born in Kippax, West Yorkshire, Kippax, Leeds. He attended Kippax Council School, where he was captain of cricket and Association football, football. After being spotted playing club cricket as a teenager, he joined Northamptonshire in 1934 English cricket season, 1934, making his debut against Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Yorkshire in 1934, aged 18. The team at that time was very weak. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddie Brown (cricketer)
Frederick Richard Brown (16 December 1910 – 24 July 1991Bateman, pp. 34–35.) was an English amateur cricketer who played Test cricket for England from 1931 to 1953, and first-class cricket for Cambridge University (1930–31), Surrey (1931–48), and Northamptonshire (1949–53). He was a genuine all-rounder, batting right-handed and bowling either right-arm medium pace or leg break and googly. Brown was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1933, but his career declined thereafter until he was made captain of Northamptonshire and England in 1949. Brown was an England selector from 1951 to 1953 and Chairman of Selectors in 1953 when England regained the Ashes. Subsequently, he was involved in cricket administration including tour management. He was elected President of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1971–72 and Chairman of the Cricket Council in 1977. He was awarded the MBE in 1942 for his gallantry in the evacuation of the British Army from Crete and the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Childs-Clarke
Arthur William Childs-Clarke (13 May 1905 – 19 February 1980) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex and Northamptonshire. Career Born in Exeter, he played 10 times for Middlesex between 1923 and 1934, and captained the second XI from then until the outbreak of World War II. In 1947 he took over the captaincy of Northamptonshire Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ... for two seasons in which the county finished bottom both years, managing to win only five out of 56 matches. Childs-Clarke averaged 18.31 in 1947 and 13.16 the following year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Webster (cricketer)
Jack Webster (1917-1997) was an English cricketer active from 1938 to 1956 who played for Cambridge University immediately before the Second World War. He joined Northamptonshire after the war and played occasionally for them from 1946 to 1955. He appeared in 71 first-class matches as a right arm medium fast bowler who was a righthanded batsman. Webster was born in Tyersal, Bradford on 28 October 1917 and died in Guiting Power, Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ... on 25 October 1997, three days short of his 80th birthday. He took 145 first-class wickets with a best performance of seven for 78 and he scored 617 runs with a highest score of 65, one of two half-centuries. Notes Sources * * * '' Playfair Cricket Annual'' – 1948 edition English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Murray-Willis
Peter Earnshaw Murray-Willis (14 July 1910 – 7 July 1995) was an English first-class cricketer. He played 29 times at first-class level either side of the Second World War, at first for Worcestershire and then for Northamptonshire. Despite his short career, in 1946 he not only won his county cap for Northamptonshire, but also captained the county on 18 occasions. A '' Wisden'' writer much later called him a "somewhat miscast captain". Murray-Willis passed fifty only once in his first-class career: making 54 for Northamptonshire against his former county of Worcestershire, in a high-scoring match at Kidderminster in July 1946. References External links * 1910 births 1995 deaths English cricketers People from Castle Bromwich Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull Northamptonshire cricketers Northamptonshire cricket captains Worcestershire cricketers Cricketers from Warwickshire {{England-cricket-bio-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Nelson (cricketer, Born 1912)
Robert Prynne Nelson (7 August 1912 in Fulham, London – 29 October 1940 in Deal, Kent) was an English cricketer active from 1931 to 1939 who played for Middlesex and Northamptonshire (Northants). He was Northants club captain in the 1938 to 1939 seasons. He appeared in 77 first-class matches as a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm orthodox spin. He scored 3,394 runs with a highest score of 123 not out, one of two centuries, and took 62 wickets with a best performance of three for 7. During the Second World War, Nelson was a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Marines The Corps of Royal Marines (RM), also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, are the UK's special operations capable commando force, amphibious light infantry and also one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy. The Corps of Royal Marine .... He died in action at the age of 28 and his gravestone in the military section of Deal Cemetery records that he was "a lover of cricket (and) he mainta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Cuthbertson
Geoffrey Bourke Cuthbertson (23 March 1901 – 9 August 1993) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1920 to 1938. He captained Northamptonshire in 1936 and 1937. Early career Cuthbertson was educated at Malvern College, where he played for the First XI. He went up to Cambridge University, playing occasional first-class matches as an opening batsman for the university team from 1920 to 1922 without winning a Blue, and making a top score of 67 against Army in 1920. He played one match for Sussex in 1920, then joined Middlesex, playing occasional matches from 1921 to 1927 with a top score of 58 against Kent in 1925. He also played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) (he was a member of the club for 74 years) and Free Foresters, and toured the US with Incogniti in 1924. Northamptonshire career After a period out of the first-class game he joined Northamptonshire in 1935. Northamptonshire had finished last in the County Championship, with two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Brown (cricketer, Born 1900)
William Cecil Brown was an English cricketer who played for Northamptonshire from 1925 to 1937 and was club captain in the 1932 to 1935 seasons. He was born in Wellingborough on 13 November 1900 and died in Hove on 20 January 1986. He appeared in 127 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman and scored 2,601 runs with a highest score of 103 not out In cricket, a batter is not out if they come out to bat in an innings and have not been dismissed by the end of an innings. The batter is also ''not out'' while their innings is still in progress. Occurrence At least one batter is not out at t ..., his only century. Notes 1900 births 1986 deaths English cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers Northamptonshire cricket captains {{england-cricket-bio-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vallance Jupp
Vallance William Crisp Jupp (27 March 1891 – 9 July 1960) was an amateur cricketer who played for Sussex and Northamptonshire. Jupp also played eight Test matches for England, and was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1928. Biography Born 27 March 1891 in Burgess Hill, Sussex, England, Jupp started his career in 1909 with Sussex, before moving to Northamptonshire in 1921 to take up the secretaryship of the club. This provided Jupp with an income and allowed him to retain his status as an "amateur" cricket player (he was paid to be club secretary, not to play cricket). After he qualified to play for Northamptonshire by residence, he assisted that county, and by 1927 was, in Wisden's opinion, the best all-round amateur in first-class cricket at the time. Jupp played regularly for Sussex after his first year with them, making such steady improvement that in 1914, with a highest innings of 217 not out, against Worcestershire at Worcester, he finished thir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |