Charles Arthur (5 February 1808 – 29 July 1884) was an Australian
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, who played for
Tasmania. Although he only represented the state in one match, he has the distinction of having participated in the
first ever first-class cricket match in Australia. Arthur died on 29 July 1884, in
Longford, Tasmania, at the age of 76.
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1808 births
1884 deaths
Australian cricketers
Tasmania cricketers
Cricketers from Plymouth, Devon
English emigrants to colonial Australia
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