Albert Paine Ward (9 November 1896 — 5 March 1979) was an English first-class
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 striki ...
er and airman.
Ward was born in
Highgate in November 1896. He served in the
Royal Flying Corps
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and its successor, the
Royal Air Force, as an
enlisted rank during the
First World War. Following the war, Ward played
first-class cricket for
Hampshire, making a single appearance at
Southampton against
Lancashire in the
1921 County Championship
The 1921 County Championship was the 28th officially organised running of the County Championship. Middlesex County Cricket Club won their third championship title.
Glamorgan County Cricket Club
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. Playing in the Hampshire side as a right-arm
fast bowler, he took a single wicket during the match, that of
Charles Hallows
Charles Hallows (4 April 1895 – 10 November 1972) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.
A tall left-handed opening batsman, Hallows provided the attacking flair in the successful Lancashire side in the ...
, to take match figures of 1 for 57. Batting at
number eleven, he was dismissed for 6 runs in Hampshire's first innings by
Harry Dean, while in their second innings he was
unbeaten on 5 runs.
Ward died in
Jersey on 5 March 1979.
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1896 births
1979 deaths
People from Highgate
Cricketers from the London Borough of Camden
British Army personnel of World War I
Royal Flying Corps soldiers
Royal Air Force personnel of World War I
Royal Air Force airmen
English cricketers
Hampshire cricketers