Arthur Henry Winter (4 December 1844 – 31 December 1937) was an

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and

cricketer 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 ...

. He was born in Clapham Green,

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and educated at

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and

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. He was a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper for

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in fifteen matches (1865–1867) as a triple cricket blue and for

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in three matches (1866–1867). His brother and two nephews also played first-class cricket. He died in Hemingford Abbots, Huntingdonshire aged 93.

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Cricinfo

Cricket Archive
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