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Woodbrook Cricket Club
Woodbrook Cricket Club was a leading Irish cricket club in Bray, County Wicklow from 1905–1913. History Following the death of Sir Henry Cochrane in 1904, his son, Stanley Cochrane inherited his fortune and his Woodbrook Estate, located outside of Bray, County Wicklow. A keen cricketer from his days at Trinity College Dublin, Cochrane decided to form a cricket club on his newly inherited estate in 1905, laying out a private cricket ground. He paid around £1,000 to have hundreds of tonnes of clay imported from Nottinghamshire, England to ensure a top-class playing surface, constructed an indoor cricket school, and hired half a dozen English professional cricketers. Cochrane's vision was to entice the best Irish and English cricketers to represent his new cricket club, as well as bringing first-class cricket to Bray. His ambition to host first-class cricket was achieved in 1907 when Ireland hosted Yorkshire. Two years later, Cochrane's personal XI played the touring Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Stanley Cochrane, 1st Baronet
Sir Stanley Cochrane, 1st Baronet (19 September 1877 – 23 October 1949) was an Irish first-class cricketer and philanthropist. Early life and cricket Cochrane was born at Dublin to Sir Henry Cochrane and his wife, Margaret Gilchrist. He studied at St Columba's College, Dublin, before going up to Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a member of the Dublin University Cricket Club. Cochrane's father, had alongside Dr. Thomas Joseph Cantrell, invented ginger ale and made a fortune exporting it to the United States. Upon the death of his father in 1904, Cochrane inherited his millions and the Woodbrook Estate. He worked to bring regular top-class cricket to Ireland, even paying the Australians £300 (the equivalent of nearly £37,000 in 2017) to play Dublin University in 1905. Shortly thereafter, he founded the Woodbrook Cricket Club and built a cricket ground on his estate, even constructing a railway station on the Dublin/Bray railway line to serve the ground. Using hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodbrook Cricket Club Ground
Woodbrook Cricket Club Ground was a cricket ground in Bray, Ireland. It was owned and built by Sir Stanley Cochrane, 1st Baronet as the home ground of Woodbrook Cricket Club. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1907, when Ireland played Yorkshire in a first-class match. Further first-class matches were held on the ground in 1909 when SH Cochrane's XI played the touring Australians, there were three further in 1912 when Woodbrook Club and Ground played the touring South Africans The population of South Africa is about 58.8 million people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions. The South African National Census of 2022 was the most recent census held; the next will be in 2032. In 2011, Statistics South ..., Ireland played the same opposition, and C.B. Fry's XI played the touring Australians. This was the last recorded match on the ground. Fred Stedman was employed at the ground as a groundsman for ten years. References External linksW ... [...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] |
1912 Triangular Tournament
The 1912 Triangular Tournament was a Test cricket competition played between Australia, England and South Africa, the only Test-playing nations at the time. The ultimate winners of the tournament were England, with four wins in their six matches, but the tournament was deemed a failure, with disappointing crowds and uncompetitive cricket, caused in part by a weakened Australia team. The tournament was the first tournament in Test history to be played between more than two nations. It was the only such tournament until the Asian Test Championships of 1998–99 and 2001–02, and the ICC World Test Championship which began in 2019. Background The idea of a competition involving all three of the nations then playing Test cricket (Australia, England and South Africa) was proposed at the first meeting of the Imperial Cricket Council in July, 1909. The original proposal was for a tournament to be held every four years, with the first hosted by England in 1912. For a variety o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William West (umpire)
William Arthur John West (17 November 1863 – 22 February 1938) was a boxer, a first-class cricketer and Test match umpire. Cricket West played in five first-class matches for Marylebone Cricket Club, scoring 182 runs at 26 with a highest score of 74 against Lancashire. A right arm quick bowler, he also took five wickets at just 20 apiece. West umpired the match between North and South in 1890 and continued to umpire for the next 45 years, until his final season in 1935, umpiring 657 first-class matches. He officiated in nine Test matches, from his first England v Australia test in 1896 to the 1912 Triangular Tournament The 1912 Triangular Tournament was a Test cricket competition played between Australia, England and South Africa, the only Test-playing nations at the time. The ultimate winners of the tournament were England, with four wins in their six matche ... featuring England, Australia and South Africa. Boxing West won the Amateur Boxing Association 1885 heav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Meads
James Meads (28 October 1877 – 3 November 1957) was an English cricketer. He played three first-class matches for Surrey in 1905. He played as a bowler (right-arm slow). See also * List of Surrey County Cricket Club players This is a list in alphabetical order of male cricketers who have played for Surrey County Cricket Club in top-class matches since it was founded in 1845. The club is one of the first-class counties competing in the County Championship and its m ... References External links * 1877 births 1957 deaths Cricketers from Nottinghamshire English cricketers People from Calverton, Nottinghamshire Surrey cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbie Taylor
Herbert Wilfred Taylor (5 May 1889 – 8 February 1973) was a South African cricketer who played 42 Test matches for his country including 18 as captain of the side. Specifically a batsman, he was an expert on the matting pitches which were prevalent in South Africa at the time and scored six of his seven centuries at home. His batting was also noted for quick footwork and exceptional 'backplay'. He became the first South African to pass 2,500 Test runs and was selected one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1925. In domestic cricket, he played for Natal, Transvaal and Western Province. Taylor's greatest achievement is generally reckoned to be scoring 508 runs at an average of 50.80 in the 1913–14 Test series against England, in spite of English bowler Sydney Barnes taking a record 49 wickets in the series at 10.93. The cricket historian H.S. Altham wrote: "The English cricketers were unanimous that finer batting than his against Barnes at his best they never hop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Over (cricket)
In cricket, an over consists of six legal deliveries bowled from one end of a cricket pitch to the player batting at the other end, almost always by a single bowler. A maiden over is an over in which no runs are scored that count against the bowler (so leg byes and byes may be scored as they are not counted against the bowler). A wicket maiden is a maiden over in which a wicket In cricket, the term wicket has several meanings: * It is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch. The fielding team's players can hit the wicket with the ball in a number of ways to get a batsman out. ... is also taken. Similarly, double and triple wicket maidens are when two and three wickets are taken in a maiden over. After six deliveries the Umpire (cricket), umpire calls 'over'; the Fielding (cricket), fielding team switches ends, and a different bowler is selected to bowl from the opposite end. The captain of the fielding team decides which bowler w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Lambert (cricketer)
Robert James Hamilton Lambert (18 July 1874 – 24 March 1956) was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and a right-arm off spin bowler, he played 51 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1893 and 1930,CricketEurope Stats Zone profile including 23 first-class matches,First-class matches played by Bob Lambert at CricketArchive captaining them on 13 occasions.Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1958 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Tancred
Louis Joseph Tancred (7 October 1876 – 28 July 1934) was a South African cricketer who played in 14 Test matches from 1902 to 1913, including three as captain. Born into a cricketing family in Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, Tancred attended St Aidan's College, Grahamstown where, along with his brothers Bernard and Vincent, he began to show cricketing prowess. He made his first-class debut for Transvaal against Western Province on 24 March 1897, scoring 40 and 15. The next season, Tancred starred in the Currie Cup, scoring 120 against Natal and averaging 36.12 for the season, placing him second in the batting averages. His flourishing cricketing career was waylaid by the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War. Tancred served as a trooper with the Western Province Mounted Rifles and awarded the Queen's Medal for bravery. While still serving in the war, Tancred was named in South Africa's touring team to England in 1901 and, after being excused from active service, Tancred joined his team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Declaration And Forfeiture
In the sport of cricket, a declaration occurs when a captain declares his team's innings closed and a forfeiture occurs when a captain chooses to forfeit an innings without batting. Declaration and forfeiture are covered in Law 15 of the ''Laws of Cricket''. This concept applies only to matches in which each team is scheduled to bat in two innings; Law 15 specifically does not apply in any form of limited overs cricket. Declaration The captain of the batting side may declare an innings closed, when the ball is dead, at any time during a match. Usually this is because the captain thinks their team has already scored enough runs to win the match and does not wish to consume any further time batting which would make it easier for the opponents to play out for a draw. Tactical declarations are sometimes used in other circumstances. It was proposed by Frank May at the Annual General Meeting of the Marylebone Cricket Club on 2 May 1906 that in a two-day match, the captain of the batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pollock (cricketer)
William Pollock (28 August 1886 – 24 November 1972) was an Irish first-class cricketer. Pollock was born at Holywood in County Down, and was educated at Campbell College, Belfast. Considered to be the best Irish batsman of his time, Pollock made his debut in first-class cricket for Ireland against Scotland at Perth in 1909. His next first-class appearance came against the same opposition the following year at Dublin, before a two year gap before his next first-class appearance, which came for Stanley Cochrane's Woodbrook Club and Ground against the touring South Africans at Bray. His next appearance in first-class cricket came a decade later against Scotland in 1922, which saw Pollock record his only first-class century when he made 144 opening the batting in Ireland's first-innings. His final first-class appearance came the following year against the same opposition, with Pollock scoring 81 runs in Ireland's first-innings. Considered unfortunate not to play more times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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