Andrew Freemantle (22 October 1768 at

Bishops Sutton Bishops Sutton or Bishop's Sutton is a village and civil parish east of the market town of Alresford in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 419, increasing to 463 at the 20 ...

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– 19 January 1837 at Easton, Hampshire) was an English

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 who played for

during the Hambledon Era and afterwards. He was a left-handed batsman, a noted fielder and an occasional

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. Freemantle made his known debut in the 1788 season and had 136 known appearances in major matches to the 1810 season. He played for the Players in the inaugural and second

Gentlemen v Players Gentlemen v Players was a long-running series of English first-class cricket matches. Two matches were played in 1806, but the fixture was not played again until 1819. It became an annual event, usually played at least twice each season, exc ...

matches in 1806.CricketArchive – scorecard of second Gentlemen v Players match
/ref> His brother John Freemantle was an earlier Hambledon player.

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* * * 1768 births 1837 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 Hampshire cricketers Players cricketers Hambledon cricketers Kent cricketers Surrey cricketers Left-Handed v Right-Handed cricketers Old Westminsters cricketers T. Mellish's XI cricketers R. Leigh's XI cricketers Hampshire and Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers People from the City of Winchester Cricketers from Hampshire {{England-cricket-bio-1760s-stub