Bartholomew Good (20 January 1812 – 12 March 1848), known as Billy Good, was an English professional
cricket
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er who played
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...
from 1831 to 1847.
A left-handed
batsman and left arm slow orthodox
roundarm bowler who was mainly associated with
Nottingham Cricket Club
Nottingham Cricket Club was an English cricket club which played in Nottingham during the 18th and 19th centuries. Matches have been recorded between 1771 to 1848 and the team played in 15 first-class matches between 1826 and 1848.
The earliest ...
,
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...
and
Marylebone Cricket Club
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(MCC), he made 68 known appearances in first-class matches.
CricketArchive
Retrieved on 4 December 2008. He represented the Players in the 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 ...
series and the North
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Etymology
T ...
in the North v. South
The North of England and South of England cricket teams appeared in first-class cricket between the 1836 and 1961 seasons, most often in matches against each other but also individually in games against touring teams, Marylebone Cricket Club (M ...
series.
References
1812 births
1848 deaths
English cricketers
English cricketers of 1826 to 1863
Players cricketers
Nottinghamshire cricketers
North v South cricketers
Hampshire cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Midland Counties cricketers
Left-Handed v Right-Handed cricketers
Married v Single cricketers
Nottingham Cricket Club cricketers
Fast v Slow cricketers
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