Charles Eustace Hadden Poynder (15 July 1910 – 29 August 1994) was an English

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. Poynder was a right-handed batsman. He was born in

Barnstaple Barnstaple ( or ) is a river-port town in North Devon, England, at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool and won great wealth. Later it imported Irish wool, bu ...

, Devon. Poynder made his

Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...

debut for Devon in 1928 against Dorset. From 1928 to 1946, he represented the county in 46 Championship matches, the last of which came against Dorset. In 1937, Poynder made his only first-class appearance when he represented a combined Minor Counties team against the touring New Zealanders at the Rose Brothers Ground, Gainsborough. In the Minor Counties first-innings he scored 3 runs before being dismissed by Bill Carson. in their second innings he was again dismissed for 3 runs by the same bowler.Minor Counties v New Zealanders, 1937
/ref> He died in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire on 29 August 1994.

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