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West Of England Cricket Team
A West of England cricket team (known simply as "West") was organised on an ''ad hoc'' basis at intervals between 1844 and 1948. ''CricketArchive'' lists nine first-class matches and one minor match in 1874 against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). In addition, West teams were involved in numerous minor events in the 1944 and 1945 seasons, when matches were frequently raised for charitable purposes during World War II. Four first-class matches were played by West against MCC, one against East and one, in 1927, against the touring New Zealanders. Summary of first-class matches 24 June 1844 — Marylebone Cricket Club v West at Lord's. Marylebone Cricket Club won by 2 wickets. : West 97 and 52 ; MCC 81 and 69/8. 5 August 1844 — West v Marylebone Cricket Club at Cricket Down, Bath. West won by 81 runs. : West 71 and 111 ; MCC 61 (Mynn 5/37) and 40 (Mynn 5/20). 16 June 1845 — Marylebone Cricket Club v West at Lord's. MCC won by 84 runs. : MCC 79 and 181 ; West 68 and 108. 18 ... [...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] |
Tom Adams (cricketer)
Thomas Miles Adams (2 May 1808 – 20 January 1894) was an English cricketer who played in the mid-19th century. He was a member of the great Kent county cricket teams of the 1840s and played for both MCC and various All-England Elevens. He was a right-handed batsman who bowled roundarm style.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 23–25.Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) Adams was born in Gravesend in Kent. He made his debut in the 1836 season and is known to have made 157 appearances in matches which were later given first-class cricket status between 1836 and 1858. He played for Kent both before the first county club was formed in 1842 and afterwards for Kent County Cricket Club. He stood as umpire in 20 top-class matches from 1852 to 1865. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Davidson (cricketer)
George Arthur Davidson (29 June 1866 – 8 February 1899) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1886 and 1898 and for Marylebone Cricket Club between 1888 and 1898. A useful all-rounder, he scored over 5500 runs and took 621 wickets in his first-class career. Davidson was born in Brimington, Derbyshire, the son of Josh Davidson, a coal miner and his wife Elizabeth. His father played one game annually for Derbyshire from 1871 to 1875. Davidson's first-class career began for Derbyshire in the 1886 season playing in the first match of the season against Marylebone Cricket Club, a game where he played in the lower order. He played regularly for the rest of the season. In the 1887 season he topped the batting and bowling figures for the club, scoring the first two half-centuries of his career and taking three five wicket overs. Derbyshire lost first-class status in 1888 and Davidson's few first-class appearances in the subsequent six years were ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Dakin
Samuel Dakin (12 April 1808 – 27 December 1876) was an English first-class cricketer active 1840–55 who played mostly for Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC or The North. He was born in Sileby; died in Cambridge. Dakin was a right-handed batting (cricket), batsman, a medium pace roundarm bowling, roundarm bowler and an occasional wicketkeeper who played in 45 matches. He scored 834 career run (cricket), runs with a highest score of 64; held 22 caught, catches; completed one stumped, stumping; and took 35 wickets with a best return of four for 3. References 1808 births 1876 deaths English cricketers Cambridge Town Club cricketers Manchester Cricket Club cricketers Married v Single cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club and Metropolitan Clubs cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Midland Counties cricketers Non-international England cricketers North v South cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers Players cricketers United All-England Eleven cricketers People from Sileby Cric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Croome
Arthur Capel Molyneux Croome (21 February 1866 – 11 September 1930) was an English cricketer. He was educated at Wellington College and Magdalen College, Oxford. He played cricket for Gloucestershire between 1885 and 1892. He became a schoolteacher and taught at Radley College 1889–1910. He was Tutor of F Social from 1902-1910. Croome was also a hurdler and ran for Oxford for four years. He was one of the pioneers of the "straight-lead-leg" hurdling technique. Croome was an all-round sportsman winning 4 "blues". While teaching at Radley he took up golf and was one of the founders of the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society. He wrote weekly articles on golf for the ''Evening Standard'' and the ''Morning Post''. After leaving Radley he moved to London and wrote on cricket for ''The Times''. Croome was also employed at ''the Daily Telegraph'' after leaving Radley. His son Victor played cricket for the Royal Air Force cricket team. Croome's cricket career was interrupted o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Crapp
John Frederick Crapp (14 October 1912 – 13 February 1981), was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire between 1936 and 1956, and played for England on tour in the winter of 1948–49. Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted that Crapp was a "sound rather than spectacular batsman who scored 1,000 runs in all but one of his fifteen seasons – that was 1954, when he struggled with the Gloucestershire captaincy". Crapp went on to become an umpire for twenty two seasons, including standing in four Test matches. Life and career Crapp was born in St Columb Major, Cornwall, and began his career with Stapleton Cricket Club in Bristol, scoring a 'duck' for the third team on his debut. However, he soon moved up to the first XI following some spectacular performances, and was spotted by Wally Hammond who invited him for trials with Gloucestershire. In 1936, he made his debut for Gloucestershire and was a fixture in their team for the next twent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Cooper (cricketer, Born 1921)
Fred Cooper (18 April 1921 – 22 December 1986) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and Worcestershire shortly after the Second World War. Cooper had played for Lancashire's Second XI as a teenager before the war, but his first-class debut came for that county against Oxford University in May 1946; he made 6 and 20 not out. Later that season he made his County Championship bow against Leicestershire, playing three Championship games in total, all in July. However, he left the county for Worcestershire at the end of the season. 1947 saw Cooper score 380 runs in his 26 innings at an average of 18.09. The following summer he had his best season in county cricket, hitting 618 runs at 22.88 including his only first-class century: 113 not out in the second innings against Nottinghamshire; his brother and teammate Edwin had made exactly 100 in the first innings of the same match. 1948 also saw Cooper selected for West of England against East of Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Cook (Gloucestershire Cricketer)
Cecil "Sam" Cook (23 August 1921 – 4 September 1996) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and in one Test match for the England cricket team. Life and career Born in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, Cook was a small and stocky slow left-arm spinner, who emerged unexpectedly after World War II when Gloucestershire had lost Tom Goddard’s former partner, Reg Sinfield. Wally Hammond saw him in the nets during the spring, and with great expectations that were later amply fulfilled, he immediately recruited Cook. Cook, who was never known by his given name, took a wicket with his first ball in first-class cricket, and 133 wickets in the 1946 season, when he played in the Test Trial. Not a great spinner of the ball, Cook relied on accuracy and flight: if he lacked penetration as a bowler, he was also very rarely mastered. In the following year with the Bristol pitch – which had caused little satisfaction for its tendency to be eith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Butler (Somerset Cricketer)
George Stephen Butler (16 December 1900 at Marlborough, Wiltshire – 21 September 1969 at Kingswear, Devon), played first-class cricket for Somerset in one match in 1920 and Minor Counties cricket for Wiltshire from 1920 to 1939. While appearing for Wiltshire, he also played in seven first-class matches, mostly for teams representing the Minor Counties as a whole against touring sides in the 1930s. Educated at Marlborough College, Butler was a right-handed opening or middle order batsman. He bowled only seven overs in first-class cricket, and his bowling style is not known, but in Minor Counties cricket he was a fairly regular bowler in his early career, sometimes opening the bowling for Wiltshire. His one match for Somerset came against Oxford University in 1920, and he made only seven and two in a low-scoring match that was over inside two days. That was the limit of his first-class county cricket, but in 1927, having played regularly for Wiltshire, he appeared in a second f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Busk
Richard Dawson Busk (21 June 1895 — 24 December 1961) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. The son of W. G. Busk, he was born at Marylebone in June 1895. He was educated at Marlborough College, where he played cricket, rugby and rackets for the college. While still a schoolboy at Marlborough College, Busk played minor counties cricket for Dorset in the Minor Counties Championship. From Marlborough, he attended the Royal Military College and was commissioned into the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers as a second lieutenant in December 1914, five months into the First World War. He was promoted to lieutenant in February 1916. Following the war, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for Hampshire in 1919, against the Australian Imperial Forces cricket team and Surrey. The following year, he made one first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against the British Army cricket team, and played for the MCC again in 1923 against Scotland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Braund
Leonard Charles Braund (18 October 1875 – 23 December 1955) was a cricketer who played for Surrey, Somerset and England. Len Braund was an all-rounder, a versatile batsman who could defend or attack according to the needs of the game and a leg break bowler who used variation more than accuracy to take wickets. He was also regarded by contemporaries as the best slip fielder of his time. Braund played 21 times from 1896 for Surrey before joining Somerset, where he had to qualify for County Championship games by residence. On his Somerset debut, he hit 82 against the 1899 Australians. The following year, he made his Championship debut for Somerset against Middlesex at Lord's, in Andrew Stoddart's last match; but this was also Braund's last match of the season for Somerset, as Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) ruled that he was not properly qualified. To fill in the waiting, he played for W. G. Grace's London County side. Braund's proper career starts from 1901, and in his first fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Box
Thomas Box (7 February 1808 – 12 July 1876) was a famous English cricketer who is remembered as one of the most outstanding wicketkeepers of the 19th century. Player Box played in important matches from 1826 to 1856. Although he played several matches for Marylebone Cricket Club, Hampshire and Surrey, he was most closely linked with cricket in his native county of Sussex. He played for the Sussex team during the early years of roundarm bowling when his colleagues included Jem Broadbridge and William Lillywhite. He was a member of the Sussex team when the county club was founded in 1839 and continued to play for the club until he retired. In all, Box is known to have played in 248 important matches. He was a right-handed batsman who occasionally made useful scores. He had 456 innings, in 43 of which he was not out, and scored 4,936 runs at an average of 11.95 with a highest score of 79. He scored 8 half-centuries. He bowled very rarely, style unknown, and took just 8 wickets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
