Arthur Bairstow (14 August 1868 – 7 December 1945) was an English first-class cricketer, who played twenty six first-class cricket matches between 1896 and 1902, mainly for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. A specialist wicket-keeper, he took 41 catches and completed 18

stumping Stumped is a method of dismissing a batsman in cricket, which involves the wicket-keeper putting down the wicket while the batsman is out of his ground. (The batsman leaves his ground when he has moved down the pitch beyond the popping crease ...

s. He was less talented as a right-handed batsman, often batting at number eleven, scoring 79 runs in total at an average of 5.64 and a best of 12. Bairstow was born in Great Horton,

Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...

, England. In addition to his Yorkshire career for which he was capped and which lasted from 1896 to 1900, he played for the

North of England Northern England, also known as the North of England, the North Country, or simply the North, is the northern area of England. It broadly corresponds to the former borders of Angle Northumbria, the Anglo-Scandinavian Kingdom of Jorvik, and the ...

against the South of England, in the then annual North v South match in 1897, and for an England XI against the touring Australians in 1902, a match in which Victor Trumper scored a century. He also played for Major Shaw's XI in 1906, and for the Yorkshire Council in 1920, at the age of 52, both matches against Yorkshire's Second XI. He played for Yorkshire in a rain ruined fixture against the touring Philadelphians in 1897. He died in December 1945 in Bucklow Hill,

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

, aged 77.

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