Cedric Hitchen (3 July 1905 – 21 May 1975) was an
English first-class
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 and chemist.
The son of Elias Hitchen and Betsy Halstead, he was born at
Todmorden in July 1905. He was educated at Todmorden Secondary School, from there he studied applied
chemistry
Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...
at the
University of Manchester. He later moved to
British India with his wife, Louise, where he gained employment as an industrial chemist. Having played
club cricket for
Todmorden in the
Lancashire League prior to his departure for India,
Hitchen made four appearances in
first-class cricket in India for the
Europeans cricket team in
Madras Presidency Matches
The Madras Presidency Matches were annual first-class cricket matches played in Madras (now Chennai) from the 1915–16 season to 1951–52 between the cricket teams of Indians and the Europeans (i.e., Europeans who were living in India). The ...
between December 1943 and January 1948. He scored 12 runs in his four first-class matches, in addition to taking three wickets with his right-arm
fast-medium bowling.
He remained in India following
independence in 1947, where he continued to play for the Europeans who had lost their first-class status from 1948.
Hitchen returned to England where he died at
Lancaster in May 1975.
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1905 births
1975 deaths
Sportspeople from Todmorden
Alumni of the University of Manchester
English chemists
English cricketers
Europeans cricketers
Cricketers from West Yorkshire