C. P. Cumberbatch (22 November 1882 – 15 February 1922) was a Trinidadian
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 st ...
er. He played in ten
first-class matches for
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, small ...
from 1909 to 1922. During the West Indies
1906 tour to England, C. P. Cumberbatch was sometimes confused with
Archie Cumberbatch
Archibald Belford Cumberbatch (born 1 June 1879; death details unknown) was a West Indian cricketer who toured England in 1906. He was a right arm fast bowler.
Although raised in Barbados he found few opportunities there and moved to Trinidad ...
. It was only in 2000 that much of the confusion concerning these two men was resolved by Ray Goble and
Keith Sandiford.
[Ray Goble & Keith A. P. Sandiford, "Revised Career Records for A.B. and C.P. Cumberbatch", ''The Cricket Statistician'', no. 110, 2000, pages 20–22.]
See also
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List of Trinidadian representative cricketers
This is a list of all cricketers who have played first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket for the Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team in the West Indies. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all ...
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1882 births
1922 deaths
Trinidad and Tobago cricketers
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