Arthur Morton (27 March 1882 – 21 February 1970) 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 first-class cricket for

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in 1901. Morton was born in Salford,

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. He made one appearance for Derbyshire in the 1901 season, at the age of nineteen appearing against

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. He scored ducks in both innings and bowled three overs without taking a wicket in a game that Warwickshire won by an innings. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.Arthur Morton at Cricket Archive
/ref> Morton died in

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at the age of 87.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morton, Arthur 1882 births 1970 deaths English cricketers Derbyshire cricketers Cricketers from Salford