Bertie Grosvenor Stevens (9 April 1886 – 9 March 1943) was an English

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er who played 19 matches, all but one for

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before the

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. He was born in Ixworth,

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; he died in Tipton,

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a month short of his 57th birthday.

Career

Stevens made a quiet debut against

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in the 1905

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, scoring 4 in his only innings and sending down two undistinguished overs of leg-spin for the cost of 18 runs; this was the only bowling spell of his career. He also took a single catch. It was to be seven years before he played first-class cricket again. In the three seasons from 1912 to 1914 he appeared 17 times for Worcestershire. 1912 saw a poor return from Stevens, but the next summer he scored 145 runs in eight innings at 20.71, making 35 and 32 against

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. In the 1914 season he played eight matches, his most in a single summer, and hit his highest first-class score of 41 against

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in July. After 1914 cricket was suspended because of the war, and afterwards Stevens made only one more appearance, for HK Foster's XI ''against'' Worcestershire in August 1919. His swansong was not a successful one: he was dismissed for 1 and 14.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stevens, Bertie 1886 births 1943 deaths English cricketers Worcestershire cricketers Sportspeople from Tipton People from Ixworth Cricketers from Staffordshire